Is ChatGPT down in the US? Thousands of users report outage after being unable to send messages

OpenAI’s ChatGPT seemed to have suffered an outage recently in the United States as thousands of users complained about not being able to ask new questions to the popular chatbot. As per outage tracking website Downdetector, over 10,000 complaints were registered on the platform about issues with ChatGPT today.

Downdetector data showed a spike at around 4 PM ET, with around 11,050 complaints being registered by users. The spike fell sharply in the intervening hours to just around 60 reports as users reported being able to once again use the platform.