ChatGPT is used by millions daily (Image: Getty)
No, it’s not just you. , the online artifical intelligence (AI) chatbot platform appears to be offline for some users.
The popular AI tool from tech firm OpenAI is used daily by million of people globally to answer queries, compose and rewrite emails, generate images and perform other automated tasks for personal or business use.
The website reported a huge spike in more than 6,000 reports of problems with ChatGPT just before midday UK time on Thursday January 23.
“The web server reported a bad gateway error”, a message on the read under a declaration of “Bad Gateway”, ther term used when a website cannot load.
Fans of the free to use AI flocked to social media to ask if others were having the same problems.
“chatgpt down in the middle of the workday i’m about to get fired pray for me”, @raghhavvvv posted on X.
What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is an online AI interface that lets you ask it queries. The technology can answer your questions or prompts and have a continuous, contextual conversation with you.
“We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way,” OpenAI says on the ChatGPT website.
“The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.”
It uses what is called “natural language processing” to generate human-like language. People often use it to write sentences from proompts thanks to the so-called “large langauge model” it is trained on, which collates large amounts of textual data to inform its output.
The free version of ChatGPT is available to everyone, but there are paid options that offer more features.
“Bruh ChatGPT is down again??? During the work day? So you’re telling me I have to… THINK?!”, @KingMusss posted
acknowedged an “Elevated Error Rate for ChatGPT and API” but said it had been “resolved” at 4:23AM PST, which is 12:23pm UK time.
The site still appeared slow to load, sometimes not loading at all by 1pm UK time.
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, that ChatGPT has 300 million weekly users.