OpenAI's AI chatbot ChatGPT experienced a significant global outage on Tuesday, primarily affecting users in India and the United States.
Around 800 complaints were logged in India, with 88 percent of users reporting that the chatbot was unresponsive to queries.
OpenAI acknowledged the outage on its system status page, confirming that both ChatGPT and its text-to-video platform Sora were affected.
According to the real-time monitoring platform Downdetector, user reports of ChatGPT outages surged rapidly around 3:00 PM.
The disruption comes right after ChatGPT reached a big milestone of getting 1 billion search requests a day.
About 88 per cent of complaints from India cited the chatbot not responding to queries, 8 per cent reported issues with the mobile app, and 3 per cent faced API-related problems.
The outage led to a flurry of activity on social media, with users sharing memes, voicing frustration, and highlighting the growing reliance on AI tools for daily tasks.
OpenAI acknowledged the outage on its system status page, confirming that both ChatGPT and its text-to-video platform Sora were affected.