Have you noticed that ChatGPT is a little less chatty this morning? OpenAI is experiencing a widespread outage Tuesday morning that’s affecting its ChatGPT AI chatbot service as well as its Sora tool for AI-generated videos.
The company said on its status page that it is experiencing “elevated errors and latency” and that it has identified the root cause and is working to mitigate the underlying issue. The technical issues are also affecting OpenAI’s APIs, which allow developers to tap into the company’s AI models.
The troubles been ongoing for 6 hours, OpenAI noted, meaning they likely started around midnight PT.
The Downdetector service also shows outage reports starting around that time and then spiking several hours later. (Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, which is also the parent company of CNET.)
Launched in 2022, ChatGPT has become the most popular AI application ever released, with 400 million weekly users. A barrage of generative AI competitors have followed, including Meta AI, Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot, but ChatGPT remains the leader largely because it’s easy to use.
The AI chatbot uses learning algorithms and large language models to process massive amounts of data from books and the internet, which it uses to deliver human-like responses to prompts from users. (Ziff Davis in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)
OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This is a developing story.