ChatGPT Goes Dark for Hours—AI Reliance Exposed as Systems Crumble
ChatGPT''s global outage stretched into critical hours today, leaving businesses and coders scrambling—turns out ''AI-powered workflows'' still need a human panic button.
Subheader: The silence was deafening
No error codes, no graceful degradation—just the digital equivalent of a shrug from OpenAI''s servers. Traders missed their AI-generated TA, startups froze mid-pivot, and crypto bros were forced to think for themselves (briefly).
Subheader: Infrastructure? Never heard of her
The outage highlights the brittle foundations of our AI-dependent economy—but hey, at least VCs can write off another ''growth hacking'' expense while retail gets rekt.
Source: OpenAI
The company has not yet acknowledged the outage on its X account, where it most recently teased updates to its "Advanced Voice" service. The feature allows users to to have "more natural, real-time conversations" with ChatGPT, rather than typing or using the voice-to-text feature to transcribe their queries.
ChatGPT has experienced outages before. The chatbot went dark this time last year after the company expanded access to its GPT-4o model to free users. Then it happened again after ChatGPT was integrated into Apple Intelligence in December.
Back in November 2023, the company even dealt with a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attach that was thought to be linked to Russian hackers. Even when there haven''t been outages, researchers have at times said that the ChatGPT service was getting worse—not better—over time, which runs counter to the promises the company has made about its LLM.
The company''s status page shows that ChatGPT service was initially "degraded" starting on Monday, but within an hour the issue was marked as resolved.
