ChatGPT Down as Thousands Report Issues Worldwide

COLOMBO (News 1st);

Thousands of people have reported they are unable to use the world's best-known artificial intelligence (AI) tool, ChatGPT

Downdetector, which tracks website outages, showed more than 10,000 people reported the AI chatbot, which is made by OpenAI.

Users attempting to use it were met with a message reading "the web server reported a bad gateway error".

Many people have taken to social media to highlight the problem and the disruption it is causing them.

ChatGPT's status page said the app had been "experiencing elevated error rates" and the firm was "currently investigating".

Though many people use the free version of the chatbot, the firm charges up to $200 per month for its various membership tiers.

OpenAI boss Sam Altman said in December that ChatGPT is used weekly by more than 300 million people worldwide.