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ChatGPT hit by global outage

The Daily Star

ChatGPT hit by global outage

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Users around the world are currently experiencing difficulties accessing ChatGPT and OpenAI services. Some users reported seeing “Error 404” messages when trying to log into ChatGPT on both web and mobile platforms. According to Downdetector, reports in the United States began at 8:42 pm Bangladesh time and peaked at 33,160 reports by 08:51 pm. In Bangladesh, 221 reports were recorded at 08:57 pm. At 08:58 pm Bangladesh time, OpenAI's official status page confirmed the issue, stating: "We're currently experiencing issues in ChatGPT and Codex. Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex. We are investigating the issue for the listed services." At 9:22 pm, OpenAI’s official status page reported that they are “monitoring degraded performance.” “We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery,” it stated.

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