On the night of December 11, ChatGPT emerged as a big challenge for the users when ChatGPT The world suddenly shut down. OpenAI apologized for this outage and informed that it is working on its solution. Interestingly, this issue occurred on the same day that Apple integrated ChatGPT into Siri, leading to speculations about the possible reasons behind this incident.
OpenAI apologizes for ChatGPT outage
Around 11:07 pm UTC on December 11, ChatGPT went down worldwide, but was brought back online in some areas.
OpenAI apologized to its 200 million active users after ChatGPT suffered a network outage following Apple’s new software update that integrated the AI Chatbot with Siri.
“We are currently experiencing an outage. We have identified the issue and are working on releasing a fix,” OpenAI affirmed in an X release dated December 12. At that time ChatGPT was online in Australia.
ChatGPT down worldwide
The incident occurred on the same day that ChatGPT was integrated with Apple’s new version of Siri, which is available on Apple iPhones, iPads and Macs. OpenAI has not confirmed whether the integration with Apple directly caused the network outage.
Many users trying to access ChatGPT’s API received a message stating “ChatGPT is currently unavailable” and OpenAI have “identified the problem” and are “working on a solution”.
OpenAI also reported that their video generation model Sora was also affected. OpenAI reported in an update at 3:53 AM UTC on December 12 that ChatGPT and Sora traffic has “mainly recovered.”
According to the information, reports of ChatGPT’s network failure started coming in around 11:07 pm UTC on December 11. After 30 minutes, a peak of 1,532 reports was seen, but the number of reports slowed down just 15 minutes later.
Conclusion
This is the fourth outage in recent months for ChatGPT, following similar outages in June and August. This incident occurred at the same time as ChatGPT’s integration with Apple Insights, which allows Siri to respond to certain requests related to ChatGPT.
