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It’s one of the most popular AI tools on the web with around 13 million users per day.
But ChatGPT has been hit with a major outage this morning, users unable to access the app or website.
According to DownDetector, hundreds of people globally have been affected since 8am BST.
OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, has acknowledged the outage with a statement saying: ‘We are currently investigating this issue.’
People took to X (Twitter) to share their frustration at having to ‘think for themselves’ in the absence of the AI tool.
ChatGPT has been hit with a major outage this morning, with users unable to access the app or website
According to DownDetector, hundreds of people globally have been affected since 8am BST
Down Detector gets network status updates from various sources including social media and reports submitted to its website.
According to the site, 79 per cent of those affected said they had problems with ChatGPT generally.
Meanwhile, others were more specific – 15 per cent said they had trouble with the app and 6 per cent were unable to use the website.
On X, one user said: ‘ChatGPT is down! How dare they force me to think for myself!!!’
Another person posted: ‘i’ve reached a new low, chatgpt is down and i came running to twitter to check if it really was the way it impacts my life so much is nuts.’
Yet another posted: ‘ChatGPT is down, and it’s totally ruining my morning. I really need to stop relying on this thing so much.’
On X (Twitter) one user said: ‘ChatGPT is down! How dare they force me to think for myself!!!’
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Yet another user on X said ‘the way it impacts my life so much is nuts. According to Tooltester, ChatGPT received an average of 13 million unique visitors per day in January 2023
Just like with most network outages, people have rushed to X (Twitter) to see if everyone else is experiencing the same thing
On OpenAI’s official ChatGPT status page, the firm said: ‘ChatGPT is unavailable for some users.’
It continued: ‘We are currently investigating this issue.’
MailOnline has contacted OpenAI for further comment about the cause of the outage and how many people have been affected.
With its ability to give human-like responses to a wide variety of questions, ChatGPT has proved a massive success since it was released in November 2022.
It received an average of 13 million unique visitors per day in January 2023, according to Tooltester.
It comes just a couple of weeks after a huge Microsoft outage took down ChatGPT, Bing.com and DuckDuckGo for thousands of users.
OpenAI confirmed ‘a partial outage affecting ChatGPT’s web-browsing capabilities due to Bing being unavailable.’