If you received an error message while using ChatGPT today, you weren’t alone. Thousands of users are reported that ChatGPT was down.
OpenAI – the company behind the well-known AI chatbot – quickly confirmed the issue and implemented a fix a little over an hour after initial reports.
ChatGPT outage: key updates
- 9:10 AM PDT: OpenAI confirms “we have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.”
- 9:04 AM PDT: OpenAI updates status, saying “Error rates are starting to reduce. We are investigating the issue for the listed services.”
- 8:39 AM PDT: OpenAI says it’s “investigating the issue for the listed services”
- 8:09 AM PDT: OpenAI confirms “increased errors on ChatGPT conversations”
- 8:00 AM PDT: Reports that OpenAI has an issue start to spike on Downdetector
ChatGPT outage: as it happened
Last updated October 23, 2025 9:21 AM
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