ChatGPT experienced another outage a few days after its successor, GPT-4, was released by OpenAI.
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Illustration picture shows the ChatGPT artificial intelligence software, which generates human-like conversation, Friday 03 February 2023 in Lierde. BELGA PHOTO NICOLAS MAETERLINCK
This is not the first time that OpenAI's artificial intelligence model experienced issues.
In February, the tech firm experienced a major outage that affected its ChatGPT, Playground, Labs, and API.
Unlike the recent outages, the latest ChatGPT downtime is not really a severe issue. However, hundreds of users were still affected.
ChatGPT Down Update: Chatbot Back Online
According to Independent UK's latest report, many users complained that OpenAI is down; others said they couldn't access ChatGPT.
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This illustration picture shows the ChatGPT logo displayed on a smartphone in Washington, DC, on March 15, 2023. - Google on March 14, 2023, began letting some developers and businesses access the kind of artificial intelligence that has captured attention since the launch of Microsoft-backed ChatGPT last year.
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The issue began on Monday, Mar. 20, and was fixed on the same day. Down Detector provided the problems experienced by OpenAI users during the outage.
- 80% can't access ChatGPT.
- 12% can't log in to their ChatGPT account.
- 8% can't open OpenAI's website.
OpenAI's Status page also gave updates regarding the latest outage. The tech company said that its API only had a partial outage.
Meanwhile, its chat.openai.com experienced a major outage.
On the other hand, no outage was detected in OpenAI's Playground and Labs.
"This incident has been resolved," said OpenAI.
Twitter Users Made Fun of ChatGPT Outage
While many OpenAI users complained about the latest ChatGPT outage, some Twitter users made fun of the AI chatbot.
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They posted numerous jokes partnered with the #chatgptdown.
One of them said that ChatGPT was down on Mar. 20. Because of this, he forgot how to do his job.
Another one stated that the ChatGPT outage happened because all people stopped using Google and are now relying on the AI chatbot.
If you want to see more funny comments from Twitter users about the latest ChatGPT outage, you can check the tweets below.
On February 21st, ChatGPT went down (Asia).
— Allen Looi (@AllenLooi) March 20, 2023
Today, March 20th, it is down again.
I have already forgotten how to do my job. #chatgptdown pic.twitter.com/tIp1zZw1CM
ChatGPT is at capacity. Y'all stopped using Google 😂#chatgbt #chatgptdown #Google pic.twitter.com/o1WgNCFuDy
— BRIAN YANO (@yanobriank) March 15, 2023
Your face when your boss's asking you that code review but #ChatGPT's down.#ChatGPTDown pic.twitter.com/M4v3x3Ondu
— Charly Wargnier (@DataChaz) March 15, 2023
Well, looks like #ChatGPT is down, atleast in #India, maybe folks can use this time to take a break.
— Saikrishna Rao (@saikrishna_rao) March 20, 2023
Remember, offline is a new luxury! #ChatGPT #chatgpt4 #chatgptdown #openai #AI
While OpenAI experiences some issues with its ChatGPT, Baidu's Ernie AI is receiving good reviews from Chinese translations.
We also reported about the arrival of a new ChatGPT-like tool, which was recently introduced by Warp.
For more news updates about ChatGPT and other AI models, always keep your tabs open here at TechTimes.
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