Reports on Down Detector indicate that the issue is starting to resolve, which may mean that OpenAI’s efforts to fix it are progressing smoothly. As of 9:10AM ET, Down Detector in the US shows 164 reports, and in the UK at 9:12AM shows 81 reports.

Both of those fall within the normal range for reports that don’t necessarily indicate a larger issue. Considering OpenAI has confirmed an ongoing issue, it likely means we’re closer to a full resolution.

OpenAI’s status page indicates that this partial outage has been ongoing for 37 minutes and that most of the issues are related to conversations with ChatGPT. Meaning that the AI might be erroring out when responding to a query from you or just not responding at all.

OpenAI confirms there’s an issue

OpenAI has been quick to confirm issues, providing an update that it has identified the issue as of 8:38AM ET. Here’s the full message on the status page.

Elevated errors on ChatGPT for all paid users

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services.

We are working on implementing a mitigation.

It’s listed as a partial outage that’s still ongoing and is mostly impacting paid users. I have my own ChatGPT Plus account and haven’t encountered any issues as of yet, although reports on Down Detector are still in the low thousands – 1,500 in the US and approximately 700 in the UK.

It’s possible that this has a shorter-lasting impact on ChatGPT’s services this morning.