Key Takeaways
- ChatGPT is currently down and has been for several hours, with intermittent uptime.
- The outage may be due to updates announced by OpenAI, such as voice chat and live feed functionality.
- To stay updated on ChatGPT’s status, subscribe for alerts on the OpenAI status webpage or try alternatives like Copilot and Gemini.
Update:
At 04:19, the status on OpenAI’s website changed to
Monitoring – A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results
. Currently, ChatGPT seems to be working again.
Update:
At 04.45 PDT, ChatGPT’s status was updated to
Incident resolved
. ChatGPT appears to be back up and running with no issues.
ChatGPT is down. In the early hours of June 4, OpenAI’s status webpage reported that the company was investigating the issue and at the time of writing, the popular generative AI chatbot ChatGPT is still unavailable.
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How long has ChatGPT been down?
It’s been intermittent for several hours
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The first status update on OpenAI’s website was at 00:21 PDT. The most recent update is from 02:00 PDT, indicating that the company is continuing to work on a fix for this issue. At the time of writing, it has been several hours since ChatGPT went down. The service did briefly come back again for about ten minutes at around 03:30 PDT but soon stopped working again. Any queries in the app and on the browser are met with an Internal Server Error message.
Could ChatGPT being down be good news?
Are new features imminent?
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There’s some speculation that ChatGPT is down because OpenAI is implementing the eagerly anticipated updates to ChatGPT that were announced at OpenAI’s spring update. These features include an improved voice chat that allows you to get instant responses and interrupt ChatGPT mid-sentence, as well as the ability to show ChatGPT a live feed from your phone and ask the app about anything that’s visible.
The messaging on the OpenAI status page does make this sound like an unplanned outage rather than a planned update, but it may be the case that ChatGPT is down, whether through design or error, because the new functionality is being switched on.
How will I know when ChatGPT is back up?
Get status alerts from OpenAI
If you’re eager to know as soon as ChatGPT is back up and running, you can sign up alerts on the OpenAI status web page. Click Subscribe and enter an email address or phone number, or you can even link to your Slack account for status messages within the Slack app.
When the status page is updated, you’ll receive a message via your selected medium with the latest updates, including when the incident is resolved.
What can I do if ChatGPT is down?
Other AI chatbots are available
If you’re desperate to use ChatGPT, there are other options available. Bing AI, which runs on the same models as ChatGPT 4 is free and available to use in a browser. Just visit bing.com and click the Copilot tab at the top of the screen. I’ve tested this out, and Copilot is currently working without any issues. You can use Copilot to create images, just like you can in ChatGPT, but you’ll need to be signed in with a Microsoft account.
Alternatively, you can visit the webpage for Google’s Gemini AI, which is also free to use and also currently running without any issues. You can use Gemini to create images, too, unless you live in the EU, Switzerland, or the UK. There are plenty of other options available, but these are ones you can access quickly if you’re in a pinch.
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