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A widespread technical malfunction affected numerous users of ChatGPT and other OpenAI services worldwide on Tuesday.
The AI assistant was temporarily inaccessible for many users, which led to a flood of complaints on various platforms.
OpenAI confirms technical problems
The company OpenAI acknowledged the difficulties on its official website and confirmed increased error rates in several of its services. In addition to ChatGPT, other applications such as the AI-based image generation software Sora were also affected by the problems.
On German fault portals such as allestörungen.de, users registered an increasing number of outages and connection problems. The first error messages were received at around 8:36 a.m. on Tuesday morning, according to the available data.
Cause identified – solution in progress
By the afternoon, OpenAI was at least able to determine the cause of the technical difficulties. The company announced that it was working on a solution to the problems, but did not provide any specific information on a possible timetable for the complete restoration of services.
The disruption highlights the dependence of many users on AI-supported applications and shows the impact that technical failures can have on such widespread services.
