Is ChatGPT Down? Users Report Problems With OpenAI Services as Company Faces String of Recent Disruptions

Users reported problems with OpenAI's services on Tuesday, according to outage-tracking site Downdetector. The reports added to a string of disruptions that have affected ChatGPT and the company's developer tools over the past week. Downdetector, which compiles problem reports submitted by users and other sources, showed that people were having trouble with OpenAI services, which include the ChatGPT chatbot, image-generation tools and the OpenAI API platform used by developers. It was not immediately clear how widespread the problems were. As of Tuesday morning, OpenAI's official status page did not show a new incident for the day, and a third-party monitoring service listed all of the company's main components, including ChatGPT, its APIs and its Codex coding tool, as operational. OpenAI did not immediately comment on the user reports.