ChatGPT Down / OpenAI's service stopped, users around the world are troubled

ChatGPT was down for several hours on Thursday, affecting millions of users around the world. OpenAI is investigating the outage, which is primarily on their website. The mobile app is working fine. The problem was noticed at 5 pm Indian time.

ChatGPT Down: On Thursday, ChatGPT halted service for several hours causing inconvenience to millions of users worldwide. OpenAI has started investigating the outage. The problem was mainly observed on OpenAI's website, while the mobile app was working. As per Indian time, ChatGPT started going down around 5 pm, after which many people raised the issue on social media.

OpenAI's response

OpenAI has posted an update on its status page, stating that they are engaged in resolving technical problems. They also informed that some problems are emerging in the API, which they are trying to fix.

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is an AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI. It is designed to communicate like humans, answer user queries, and generate images and videos. It is based on a large language model (LLM) called a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT).

Advantages of ChatGPT

Easy to use: Any user can visit the ChatGPT website and type in their question and get an instant answer. If the answer is not satisfactory, there is an option to modify the question and ask again.

Diverse information: ChatGPT is capable of providing information in many areas including education, health, technical knowledge, sports.

Time savings: It saves users' time by giving them quick and accurate answers.

Effects of the outage

This outage affected not only individual users, but also many businesses and educational institutions that rely on ChatGPT's services. However, OpenAI is working quickly and it is expected that the service will be restored soon, allowing users to benefit from this useful tool again.

This outage has again brought to the fore the challenges that are associated with AI and online services, especially when a large number of users access the service at the same time.