OpenAI’s ChatGPT facing widespread outage across web and smartphone app

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is currently facing issues in generating responses. Upon trying to use the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot through a mobile app for Android, an error message pops up stating that the server is facing problems. Similarly, on the iOS app and on the web version of chatGPT, the AI chatbot is unable to generate responses and shows a “Request Timeout” message after a while.

According to Downdetector, reported outages for OpenAI spiked up from 11am on May 3 with 90 per cent of reported problems being with ChatGPT. Some users have also reported issues with the website (8 per cent) and login (2 per cent).