ChatGPT stopped working for many users Thursday afternoon, and OpenAI announced that its AI app was experiencing a glitch for some users. The San Francisco-based company said the app was restored several hours later.
“ChatGPT is back up and running and continuing to work on a general fix,” the artificial intelligence company posted in an update to its status page as of 7:05 p.m. ET. Previously, ChatGPT announced that it had partially recovered, but chat history was still not loading.
The company also said that Sora, its video generation model, and an automated application programming interface (API) that allows software programs to communicate with each other are working.
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According to Downdetector, an online platform that provides users with real-time information about the status of various websites and services, more than 15,000 incidents were reported by OpenAI users as of Thursday afternoon, with most of the issues related to ChatGPT. Ta.
The technical glitch occurred around 1:30 p.m. ET. The company originally posted, “We are currently experiencing high error rates with ChatGPT, API, and Sora. This issue is caused by an upstream provider and we are currently monitoring it.”
The number of reports had fallen to less than 700 by Thursday evening.
Launched in 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT service can generate human-like responses based on user prompts and had more than 200 million active users as of late this summer.
The company says the majority of Fortune 500 companies use OpenAI’s products and its APIs.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is one of the technology leaders planning to: donate $1 million The donation was made to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund, a spokesperson confirmed earlier this month.
