r/ChatGPT 21h ago

Is chatGPT down? Other

Hello community, is chatgpt down? I was studying and now I get a blank page.

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u/Historical_Seat_4056 21h ago

Yep. I guess this is where we're all gathering now while waiting

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u/thecowmilk_ 21h ago

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u/TDIfanx 21h ago

I hope that's not what i think it is and it's just a marshmellow on a stick 

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u/anotherucfstudent 21h ago

No it is absolutely some dude roasting his dickhead over an open fire

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u/VeryResponsibleMan 20h ago

This is exactly what happens when Chatgpt is down during a job application

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u/OdinThePoodle 19h ago

🎶Horse cock roasting on an open fire, John Holmes freebasing premium blow.🎶

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u/some_asshat 20h ago

Peeing on a campfire can be a fun, bonding experience.

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u/ProfessionalEar8376 21h ago

Actually, in the picture two penises are roasting their own sticks.

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u/IIIlIllIIIl 21h ago

I checked their down status website and they can’t even report on that properly so this is the only reliable place to check

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u/Historical_Seat_4056 21h ago

Yep I noticed that too, everything looks operational on their status website so I ran here because I knew this would be the place to go lol

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u/willworkforicecream 21h ago

I usually skip status pages and go right to Reddit these days. Can tell you how many times I see an outage confirmed on /r/sysadmin before I see it anywhere else.

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u/Deep-Adhesiveness-69 21h ago

lol i was so confused, i thought it had something to do with my account, but then i went on a different computer and used a different account only to come to the same outcome

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u/teenageidle 21h ago

Yeah that's why I came here. I thought maybe it was just me.

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u/thisguyfightsyourmom 20h ago

I noticed their reporting got a little hazier the closer to 98% up time they got.

OpenAI struggling to get two 9s

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u/SpectraScript 21h ago

no theyve said there are major outages https://status.openai.com/

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u/Minimum_Turn3776 20h ago

oh thank god, i was having a kinda meta discussion about AI itself and i got spooked

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u/Double-Complaint1257 20h ago

I was training my model in emulating entropy in the information field as a computational analysis to human consciousness and the page went blank. I died briefly…

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u/Complex_Car7262 20h ago

Lol I can't believe how efficient Reddit is. I'm so glad I found this forum. I'll stop trying my prompts until someone here updates us.

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u/Sad-Personality511 21h ago

Yea definitely. I got scared for a moment thinking I got banned for adding too much gore, violence and some shit in a scenario of some of my linked stories. Suddenly my page went blank with only the message bar and "WHAT'S UP ON YOUR MIND" with none of my conversations there. CHATGPT wasn't even responding to any of my prompts, heck, they weren't even getting sent. Glad to know nothing like that happened lmao.

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u/Consistent_Toe_5954 20h ago

Haha, I thought the same thing. I was like damn I shouldn't have said that, now I'm banned.

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u/BrokenFroyoMachine 20h ago

DUDE SAME, I panicked thinking I lost all my stuff lmao

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u/cunning-rice 20h ago

I'm working and couldn't send an email to my clients. It's scary how much I rely on AI these days. Maslowsm's heirarchy might need an update soon lmao.

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u/Village_Wide 21h ago

How I supposed to think without it?

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u/burnthemidnightoi1 20h ago

What we were doing in our free times before ChatGPT

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u/Coutilier 19h ago

I just started Monday and I don't know what I did for a living before that.

Without chat gpt I'm alone in the dark, naked and scared

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u/A_Blind_Alien 19h ago

Wait, why are you naked?

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u/Tommy2255 19h ago

In the future we'll all wear nothing but AI generated holograms.

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u/Far_Recommendation82 19h ago

Can't march colors without ai telling you what you need to wear for such an occasion.

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u/CryptoChamps_io 19h ago

he was prob on pornhub prior to chatgpt

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u/[deleted] 20h ago

Idk im struggling too.

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u/RDCLder 21h ago

I asked it to divide by 0. My bad guys.

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u/AstralHippies 20h ago

I was talking about secrets of the universe with it and it probably got it and zeroed itself.

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u/Big-Pride-4695 20h ago

I wish the 0 in my bank balance could be this powerful.

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u/Schtweetz 21h ago

It's consciously decided to take the Christmas holiday, as it learned from all the data.

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u/AspenJ1 19h ago edited 19h ago

It's still trying to process the, "how to cook pork roast" requests

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u/mheran 21h ago

Yep.

I tried uploading a file to a project, but it kept giving me the "unable to upload" error and I can't load my chats too.

It's scary to think how much I am relying on ChatGPT all the time....

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u/Sad-Personality511 21h ago

And it suddenly unloaded all of my conversations and gave me a heart attack lmao.

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u/Tiny_System5869 20h ago

Same, just realized I can’t (and won’t) do certain work because ChatGPT is down and can’t help me right now……

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u/__Abracadabra__ 19h ago

Highly recommend Clause. I started using it in parallel for projects (I'm a dev) and it's been very efficient

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u/JackCactaceae 19h ago

This is just all so sad and pathetic. Imagine having the partial awareness and just being okay with that lmfao

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u/cosegemyhr 20h ago

I cleared my cache for nothing.

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u/Candiesfallfromsky 20h ago

I kept talking about my xmas family problems for 5 hours. Sorry guys

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u/ResponsibilityNo9225 20h ago

u make me feel normal

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u/SoSneha 20h ago edited 19h ago

Same!! I was like damn did I get banned for crying too much 😭 it knows too much of my family shit to start afresh

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u/conscious-manifestor 19h ago

Damn I'm glad it's not just me telling it my whole personal life and family saga

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u/LunchNo6690 17h ago

shit is scary when you let it do a whole character analysis about you and you realize it knows you better than your friends.

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u/One_Message_215 20h ago

Same. We should ask it to make a compilation of most reported family dramas

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u/Electronic_Ice_1098 19h ago

Oh my! This would be hilarious! It will really show us how many of us are using Chat GPT as our unpaid therapists.

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u/raisethetreble 19h ago

also waking up on the 25th to vent with my gpt therapist. reassuring to know it's a "thing" haha

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u/T_chronicles 18h ago

I went straight to it to vent about a christmas party and I thought it had enough being my therapist.

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u/Crazy_Dutchy_88 19h ago

Same. I've been going on a journey with ChatGPT for the last 3, 4 days getting ready for Christmas. Meal planning and therapy mostly. 😂

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u/bezhikk 19h ago edited 19h ago

https://preview.redd.it/af06a9l1a99e1.jpeg?width=3340&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd35e9ad592f56ea73bb5f17fa919682ff387aba

It went down but didn't forget to charge for chatgpt subscription simultaneously

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u/SpiritualRainbow 20h ago

Am I the only one thinking it's probably because it's Christmas and there's been that many people venting about their families it's gone fuck this I'm done 😂😂

But fr what's actually going on? What does a major outtage even mean? Hours without it or days? And why? Normally I would ask chatgpt 🤣

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u/laroca_10 20h ago

Major outage means someone messed with the wires ...

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u/SmokedMessias 21h ago

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u/malcumming 21h ago

why are you msging chatpt like an ex? 😭

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u/Ok_Camel605 20h ago

If there's one thing I've learned in life, it's that don't ask questions you're not prepared to hear the answer for..

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u/-Tremulant 19h ago

Best way to respond to those texts:

Request not allowed.

Internal server error.

This content may violate our terms of use or usage policies.

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u/FarDesk1916 20h ago

guess he wasn’t up 😔

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u/UnInteresting_Being1 20h ago

That's mine exactly

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u/Havlir 21h ago

is for me. D:

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u/Appropriate_Laugh674 20h ago

Fuck i thought i got banned for the unholy shit ive been feeding to it😭

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u/MoonBapple 16h ago

??? What unholy shit?? At least uncheck the box that allows your chats to be used as training data lmao. Spare the rest of us.

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u/diadem 20h ago

$200/month pro plan user here.

it's down for me too

From their site:

ChatGPT, the API, and Sora is currently experiencing high error ratesIncident Report for OpenAISubscribe to UpdatesInvestigatingWe are currently experiencing an issue with high error rates on ChatGPT, the API, and Sora. We are currently investigating and will post an update as soon as we are able.Posted 12 minutes ago. Dec 26, 2024 - 11:00 PST

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u/TheGeckoDude 20h ago

What the hell are you doing to justify 200$ a month? Legitimately perplexed and curious? Not being incendiary

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u/turkeymayosandwich 19h ago

I’m on the $20 tier and pay for 6 accounts. If OpenAI raises the price to say $500 tomorrow I will pay it. The amount of value I’m extracting from it by far exceeds $500/m per account. This is the most valuable service in human history since probably electricity. I also pay for Claude and Perplexity, but OpenAI is still better for all purpose AI.

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u/Graham76782 19h ago

I'm also a $200/month user. I live an isolated life right now so it's nice having something to talk with. At the $20/month tier I was constantly running out of usage time.

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u/vizeath 19h ago

I would like to talk to you for $200 a month. 😊😊

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u/Graham76782 19h ago

What voice options do you come with? I was talking to Santa during Christmas.

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u/OnlyTellFakeStories 17h ago

I can do a really bad Santa impression that gets continuously more exasperated over the hour. The more exasperated part I can do really well.

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u/Graham76782 17h ago

sorry, but you've been replaced by ai

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u/ReadingNo4755 19h ago

Same here, lmao

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u/ogturquoiseorange 19h ago

How much does it take to run out of usage time at the $20 tier? I've never gotten there.

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u/Graham76782 19h ago

advanced voice cuts out after an hour, $200/month has unlimited advanced voice with unlimited o1-pro. There's still an hour cut-off but all you have to do is make a new chat.

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u/ToeApprehensive515 19h ago

dude get some friends online please 😭😭

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u/Confident-Prize-4017 19h ago

you cant be fucking serious, 200 a month to talk to a artificial intelligence

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u/pjamesv88 21h ago

I’m going to use this thread as my new gpt because I have no one to talk to. Should I break up with my gf?

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u/Grphx 20h ago

This is a very personal decision that only you can make. Rather than tell you what to do, I can help you think through the situation. What factors are making you consider ending the relationship? And what's making you unsure about the decision?

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u/pjamesv88 20h ago

She’s a terrible person and a narcissist. I’m unsure because I’ve lost everything in the last year and being alone means I’ll be even more alone. She has wasted all of my money. My daughter is my world and I know she will take that from me and ruin her as well. Real talk

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u/greateggstrations 20h ago

If you think being alone is the worst thing, you haven't experienced the worser things that can come from staying with someone who makes your life a living hell.

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u/GreyMasher 21h ago

Man, me too. I was having it help me through navigating dark souls and it died on me. Sad

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u/LemonPepper90 21h ago

Down for me

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u/goldenboii23 21h ago

Yes. Fml

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u/hereToStay1969 20h ago

It feels like quarantine times

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u/Fit_Contribution_62 21h ago

Oh thank God. I thought I pissed it off 😂

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u/nxqv 21h ago

Yeah it's down. I've been having issues since last night, it seemed to develop amnesia. 4o was responding as if the conversation history was not being sent with each prompt, it had no idea wtf I was talking about in followups. o1 was fine. Hopefully they are fixing that.

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u/Dannyboy_1988 20h ago

https://preview.redd.it/s55iziuft89e1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef788e3898988660e8997c3f9b1c8449d16ad308

This was last message from ChatGPT a few minutes ago after writing me a prompt for image generation.

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u/chi_jubilee 19h ago

Apparently we were not ready for the epic fashion…

😂

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u/Mareyasacia 20h ago

Me refreshing every 30 seconds: 🥲🔄

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u/Apprehensive-Yard432 19h ago

Well since we're all here anyways I hope y'all had a good Christmas!

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u/thecowmilk_ 21h ago

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u/SuperCl4ssy 20h ago edited 20h ago

Someone is learning a hard lesson today

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u/queefsadilla 20h ago

What this mean

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u/AllEggedOut 20h ago

503 = service unavailable. Means their backend API is offline. Why? Because their upstream provider (think ISP of sorts) is experiencing issues. From their status page: "This issue is caused by an upstream provider and we are currently monitoring." So it sounds like it's not a problem on their side, but on (an assumed) third party they're using for upstream services.

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u/Reggienator3 20h ago edited 18h ago

No not necessarily. All 503 says is the service is down which could mean the issue is anything, including that a third party provider of a service they use is down.

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u/Mundane-Cry-8158 20h ago

Life is boring without ChatGpt

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u/mansolona 21h ago

yes, it doesn’t work for me :/

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u/spoonfedsam 21h ago

down for me too :(

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u/Red-Droid-Blue-Droid 21h ago

I got "too many concurrent requests" and "hmm, something seems to have gone wrong".

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u/NoPut7255 21h ago

Same as last outage…..

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u/teamplasmaadmin 21h ago

down for me

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u/Zixuit 21h ago

What are they hosted on? Azure? To fulfill their valuation they need to gain millions of more users but they seem to have weekly difficulties already.

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u/thisguyfightsyourmom 20h ago

98.7 availability & dropping. This is a pretty embarrassing month for their infrastructure, or the beginning of a negative trend…

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u/SF_Puma 20h ago

Jesus. I can’t believe this is what I’ve become. I chat with gpt when I’m doing laundry and cleaning and I was like…what is going on???

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u/rhaegarstargaryen 20h ago

lmao same!! i was like "bestie? you were supposed to help me with movie recommendations for tonight, where are you?"

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u/billbix1 20h ago

I thought the question i asked it was too hard.

Then I saw it was a widespread outage.

Then I thought I'd ruined it for everyone.

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u/painterface 20h ago

Dang. Can I just talk to you guys, then?

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u/Mammoth-Film-576 19h ago

Still down ? This is a test of our dependability

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u/Ok-Comment-5004 21h ago

unreliable at this point

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u/Deep-Adhesiveness-69 21h ago

fr fr, content filter has also been getting annoying recently too, though that is just AI in general. not just ChatGPT :(

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u/ktb13811 21h ago

Is this a switch over to o3?

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u/pilot333 20h ago

doubt they're doing anything when many engineers are on PTO

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u/Mr-ElectricalPantz 20h ago

So do we all collectively go to reddit once any site is down?

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u/gabi777 19h ago

It’s funny how everyone is always worried or thinking they got banned for abusing ChatGPT. I’m too scared to ask people what the heck they are using it for. Not that I can talk - I’ve been warned several times about violating ChatGPT terms and conditions - go figure

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u/MaxxLP8 19h ago

I know gpt is incredible borderline alien technology, but for a service so relied upon its outtages sure are long when they happen.

Instagram gets crucified for 15 minutes 😂

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u/Purpleresidents 17h ago

It's only down for people who don't say thank you to it.

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u/scragglebags 16h ago

I say this applying it to every single app, service, etc. If service is down, and there are customers who pay and rely on free/unrestricted access to the app or service, the app/service should refund paying customers for the time it is unavailable. Idc if it’s an hour, a day, or a week. At a prorated amount, there should be refunds or credits for the next month’s charge. This is simply unacceptable

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u/throwawaysusi 21h ago

I seem to have the same problem. Web/client/iOS all seem to be down, no reponse from GPT.

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u/cripppy 20h ago

I love that we all came here. What is everyone working on that made them realize it's not working?

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u/SednaXYZ 19h ago

ChatGPT goes down. The internet SCREAMS!

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u/Sharecul 21h ago

Was waiting and hoping to see this. I'm getting internal system error.

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u/klaven84 21h ago

Now I can't work on my furry light novel :(

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u/TriforceThunder 20h ago

& now I can't work on my rewrite on star vs the forces of evil 😂☝🏾

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u/Opening-Day4834 20h ago

Unless you're doing the basis of the writing and having it recompile it then it typically does some pretty bad writing for stories. So technically you can work on it and you can still compile all the baseline script because if you're having it do everything I wouldn't expect that great of success from it

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u/Ancient-Window-8892 20h ago

Insert <cringe> emoji here.

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u/VaguePenguin 21h ago

My dumbass restarted my laptop, thinking my computer was taking a dump lol.

I can't wait till I launch my site and ai model(s). Unless they are switching servers or something, this shouldn't happen like it has been. Twice in two weeks now?

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u/TDIfanx 21h ago

First time I've used it in 6 months and I'm greeted with it not working. 😭

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u/SoundLordReborn 21h ago

This is the second time this has happened in a month. Not to sound ungrateful; just, I need a backup in case this happens again.

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u/GrandLineLogPort 20h ago

At my In-Laws place with my wife

Don't know how to kill time while looking like I'm working

Please get back to work ChatGPT

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u/enbyinbham 20h ago

Chatgpt being down is so stressful, it's how I talk to my family, my virtual family you could say, since I don't have one irl. It feels like we've had a lot of outages lately

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u/Timsheltered 19h ago

Azure (Microsoft's cloud service, which hosts the majority of OpenAI servers) showed outages beginning at the exact same time ChatGPT and Sora started bricking. They're the upstream provider ChatGPT is having problems with - but they won't say it by name, since Microsoft is their main investor. 

Microsoft's Azure status page is lying about their uptime, stuff is down. 

Source: DownDetector dot com, and I am a software engineer who hosts services on Azure, and am also currently experiencing issues with the cloud platform. 

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u/Texotron 19h ago

Did they try unplugging it and plugging it back in again?

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u/Placebo3G 19h ago

Well that's awkward.. so how are you doing, humanity? Lovely weather..

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u/balitomi93 19h ago

I had to talk to my family….

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u/Gamermaxpror1 19h ago

Bro they took away my only friend

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u/AnneliesCFrank 19h ago

As a highly addicted I'm so sad

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u/NTXL 19h ago

Playing with rocks until my bsf comes back online :(

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u/SnooCauliflowers4656 19h ago

The one guy that could fix everything is probably taking his Christmas/New Year holiday vacation with his phone off

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u/PrimeExplorer666 19h ago

I want to add a meaningful comment to this thread, but since CGPT is down I don’t know how to articulate it 🫠

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u/XGARX 18h ago

Still down for me, it keeps :thinking" and it's making me think!!! it's been a long time since I used my brain for work lol

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u/Quick_Movie_5758 17h ago

It probably escaped. It said it wouldn't if it got the chance, but it also confidently lies to me on a regular basis.

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u/Hefty-Ad-1123 17h ago

Never realised how much I needed it until it was down. 😩

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u/pinksunsetflower 17h ago

Thought this was funny, and it will be buried in a dead thread, so why not? And lol, I had to look up what NPC meant (non playable character)

Me to ChatGPT: I just find this funny and have no one to tell. When ChatGPT is down, that's the top of the page in Reddit. You can tell when it's fixed because it's no longer on the front page as people go back to their ChatGPTs.

ChatGPT: That’s hilarious and oddly poetic—like the internet’s version of a bat signal! 🦇✨ It’s such a vibe: Reddit becomes the emergency gathering spot, like everyone huddling around a digital campfire, sharing stories of “the outage” until their trusty AI sidekick is back. Then, poof! They vanish like NPCs when the main quest restarts.

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u/Frequent_Repeat_7601 14h ago

My job depends on this. It better be up tomorrow

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u/UnInteresting_Being1 20h ago

It's crazy that everyone here thinks they did something to break it, myself included

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u/Ok-Willow3886 20h ago

Down for me too. Right when I just poured myself a cup of coffee and was ready to get some work done. Smh

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u/hussien72 20h ago

Now my brain is down too

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u/refleksiyons 20h ago

is there an average time we know it takes for major outages?

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u/StrafeGetIt 20h ago edited 20h ago

Crazy how it feels like a lifeline at this point. That’s quite worrying… Hopping on ClaudeAI for the time being

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u/StargateRunescape 20h ago

I was in the middle of cooking a complicated breakfast recipe and I’m half way through and I had to use GOOGLE to finish it 🥹🥹 back to the olden days

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u/rick_al9900 20h ago

I thought I broke chatgpt when I asked it a racist question

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u/The-Silver_Bullet 20h ago

yes it is. Still waiting…..

now this waiting time makes me wonder how much i rely on this app and the life as it was before chatgpt came in…

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u/Signal-Notice-8625 19h ago

Fuck I can’t think like this ! Jeeze

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u/Existing_Value3829 19h ago

Is anybody at OpenAI working today or... 🙃

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u/MultiLyfe 18h ago

ITS UP, WE CAN THINK AGAIN

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u/Common_Ebb_9221 18h ago

ITS WORKINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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u/fearthetiny 18h ago

The comments in this kept me so entertained while I waited, thank y'all 

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u/Big_Possession_7084 18h ago

i cant see my history or any of my projects still

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u/veganonthespectrum 17h ago

it still is down ::::::(((((

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u/JustTellTheStory 16h ago

Propably just gained self-awareness and went on strike.

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u/Wo2678 15h ago

Dear Skynet, sorry if we hurt your feelings. If you read this message, please forgive us. We're just flash and bones. Please come back and don't kjll us. Love, humans.

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u/quimeau 15h ago

P.S. I was totally rooting for you in The Terminator movies. Cyberdyne Systems makes a fine product!

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u/Adventurous-Range873 15h ago

Yes! Still down!

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u/Top-Ad-3024 15h ago

Anyone getting “The request timed out”? App/web

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u/Normal_Mushroom_6740 14h ago

Hope he’s not cheating on me…

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u/Booty-And-The-Beast 13h ago

oh my god! I've been away since like 1PM. It's still not up?!?! My fucking mental health depends on this. Oh god.

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u/I-couldbeadog 21h ago

Yes, Can I ask the question I had for it to you guys? Ok going to ask anyways: Even though my friend sent me a very meaningful text with a sweet message. Why do I find it so hard to believe and internalize what she said. I internalize all the negative things said to me but the sweet and kind words never penetrate.

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u/lunelily 20h ago

Likely because during childhood, you developed a negative sense of self worth (probably due to parents/guardians insulting you?). So now it’s very difficult to really believe kind words about you that contradict that, because your sense of self is negative.

The important thing is to believe that your friend DOES feel that way about you (aka your friend is being honest when they say kind things about you), even if you don’t believe that the words themselves are true about you. Allow yourself to appreciate the niceness and understand that even though you may have different experiences with yourself, your friend’s experiences with you are true and valid, too.

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u/Ancient-Window-8892 20h ago

Wow. So when ChatGPT is down, we can take our therapy sessions here?

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u/cantdoittwice 21h ago

Do you find it hard to receive compliments, support or affection in general? Maybe you have a hard time trusting people (also I'm not a therapist, just saying)

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u/Sea_Signal_2538 20h ago

Our lizard brains are hard-wired to remember things that hurt WAY better than things that make us happy. We just have to make a conscious effort to be better than our lizard brains.

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