ChatGPT is down for thousands of users across the globe as some complain the outage interrupted their ability to work or disrupted their daily routines. Many reported receiving a "bad gateway" error m

ChatGPT, the massively popular conversational chatbot, was down for a short time before the issue was resolved, according to an OpenAI status update.

Thousands of users have reported issues with OpenAI's ChatGPT tool, with 89 percent saying they are unable to access the chatbot, while 10 percent and 1 percent said they had problems with the website and the data analyst component of the tool.

ChatGPT experienced an unplanned outage today, January 23, 2025, affecting users in the U.S., U.K and around the world. Reports started to emerge on outage-tracking site DownDetector and across social media at around 4am PT/ 7am ET/ 12pm GMT with no official word from parent company OpenAI on what the cause is.

ChatGPT experienced a major outage on Thursday morning, leaving thousands of users unable to access the popular AI chatbot.

Outages began being reported about 4 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23, with nearly 5,000 users experiencing issues, according to downdetector.com.

Downdetector, a website that tracks online service disruptions, has registered a significant spike in outage reports for ChatGPT within the last hour. The cause of the outage is currently unknown. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has yet to release an official statement addressing the issue.

Downdetector, which tracks website outages, showed more than 10,000 people reported the AI chatbot, which is made by OpenAI, was not working in the UK on Thursday. Users attempting to use it were met with a message reading "the web server reported a bad gateway error".

ChatGPT launched in the fall of 2022 and quickly became the fastest-growing consumer software. The base version is free, but some users pay as much as $200 a month for the service. Around 300 million people use OpenAI's chatbot every week, and the chatbot handles more than 1 billion messages a day.

ChatGPT, the massively popular conversational chatbot, was down for a short time before the issue was resolved, according to an OpenAI status update.

ChatGPT, the massively popular conversational chatbot, is back up and running after going down for a short time Thursday. Downdetector, a website that tracks online service disruptions ...

Thousands of users were unable to access OpenAI’s chatbot starting around 6 a.m. on Thursday. Shortly after 10 a.m., the company said the issue had been resolved.