It looks like the outage started around 1:30PM ET, which is when reports began to spike on Down Detector. At 2PM ET, OpenAI posted an update to its status page, saying ChatGPT, the API, and its text-to-video generator Sora are “currently experiencing high error rates.”

OpenAI is working to fix an issue that caused major outages in its applications, including ChatGPT. A statement from the artificial intelligence (AI) company, posted on social media platform, X, just after 4 p.m. Thursday, noted "most" of ChatGPT, the API, and Sora were down Thursday afternoon.

OpenAI's popular ChatGPT service is experiencing an outage at the current time, according to the company's website. A system status page

OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora video generator are currently experiencing an outage that has made them inaccessible for many users. The issue also affects the application programming interfaces that developers use to integrate the company’s technology into their software.

Major global outage hits OpenAI. Highest severity for ChatGPT and API service while Sora is only partially affected.

EST, the outages tracking website, showed that there were over 15,000 reports of OpenAI not working with a majority, 92 percent, saying the problems were directly related to ChatGPT. The live outage map shows issues occurring across the country,

OpenAI’s much-used ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot is down, with scores of social media users reporting complaints. Others noted issues with OpenAI’s Sora video-generation model. “We are currently experiencing an issue with high error rates on ChatGPT,

Most of ChatGPT, the API, and Sora have been down for a couple of hours and we're sorry for the trouble this is causing," said OpenAI in a post to X, formerly known at Twitter.

According to Downdetector, it appears that ChatGPT is down for most users in a mass outage. As of press time, more than 15,000 users have reported issues with the chatbot. OpenAI acknowledged that ChatGPT was not working on Thursday,