Overview

• On Thursday, users of OpenAI's ChatGPT reported widespread service disruptions, including login difficulties and error messages such as 'Bad gateway.'
• The issues were reported across Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom, with thousands of complaints logged on outage tracking platforms.
• OpenAI, the San Francisco-based developer of ChatGPT, confirmed the disruption and attributed it to an 'unresolved incident' causing an increased error rate.
• The company announced that the technical problems were resolved after about an hour, though some users continued to report issues accessing the service afterward.
• ChatGPT, launched in November 2022 and widely used in daily life, is a leading AI chatbot closely integrated with Microsoft technologies.