ChatGPT goes down worldwide

ChatGPT has been hit by a worldwide outage, sparking chaos in the corporate world. The AI has gained popularity in the workforce, helping employees draft the perfect email, research information and provide customer support.
'We are observing elevated error rates and latency across ChatGPT and the API,' OpenAI shared on its sit. 'Our engineers have identified the root cause and are working as fast as possible to fix the issue.'
The company said at 10:54am ET that 'full recovery across all listed services may take another few hours.' OpenAI's website shows 14 affected components with its APIs, 21 for ChatGPT and four with Sora.
And the app just shows the AI as thinking with a pulsing circle appearing after sending ChatGPT a message. Users are sharing their frustrations about the outage on X with many admitting they cannot doing their job without the AI.
'Of course ChatGPT is down while I'm in the middle of doing my charts for work,' one user shared on X. Another user joked about the outage, posting: 'ChatGPT is down….. Which means I actually have to type out my own emails at work. Send prayers.' 'Remember when we used to think for ourselves? Crazy. How are you surviving the AI apocalypse?' one user shared on X.

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