ChatGPT experienced another outage a few days after its successor, GPT-4, was released by OpenAI.

ChatGPT Down Update: Chatbot Back Online After Hour-Long Global Outage; Here's What Happened

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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.

ChatGPT Down Update: Chatbot Back Online After Hour-Long Global Outage; Here's What Happened
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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.

Is ChatGPT Down Update? Chatbot Back Online After Hour-Long Global Outage; Here's What Happened
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Is ChatGPT Down Update? Chatbot Back Online After Hour-Long Global Outage; Here's What Happened

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.

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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