ChatGPT Experiences Major Outage, Disrupting Millions Worldwide

OpenAI's AI chatbot faced widespread downtime, affecting users and third-party integrations as the company worked on a fix.

OpenAI reported a 'Major Outage' for ChatGPT on January 23, with users encountering errors and disruptions globally.
The outage began with 'elevated error rates' in the API early in the morning, with intermittent fixes and further issues reported throughout the day.
The downtime affected not only ChatGPT's website and app but also third-party integrations relying on OpenAI's API.
Social media platforms saw a surge of complaints and memes, highlighting the reliance on ChatGPT for work, study, and personal tasks.
Downdetector recorded a significant spike in outage reports, while users explored alternative AI tools such as Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude AI, and Microsoft Copilot.