ChatGPT 10-hour outage sends users into existential spiral
In a turn of events that plummeted productivity and gave many existential dread, ChatGPT was down for more than 10 hours on Tuesday, a move that left users feeling as though they were teleported back to the Dark Ages (or at least to 2018).
The worldwide outage began around 2:45 a.m. ET (9:45 a.m. SAST), according to Down Detector. After a brief dip in complaints, reports spiked again as the sun rose across the U.K., Europe, North America, and Australia. A truly global 'what do I even do without my AI?' moment.
ChatGPT's free and paid tiers were both down, and to those who love image generation, Sora, OpenAI's dreamy image generator, had downtime.
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