ChatGPT down: What the company said on the two-hour long outage

OpenAI’s ChatGPT was down for some users on September 17, 2024. OpenAI acknowledged the issue and classified it as ‘partial outage’ on its official website. According to the company’s status page, the issue started around 3:50pm PT. Marked as “Elevated Errors on Some API Models”, the issue impacted ChatGPT users across the world.