Archive · 31 Oct 2025
ChatGPT Suffers Widespread Outage, Thousands Report Issues
Imagine you have a super smart robot friend called ChatGPT that helps you with homework or stories.
One afternoon, this robot friend suddenly stopped working for many people all around the world.
It was like the robot got a little sick and couldn't answer any questions.
Many people noticed this and told a special website that tracks when online things break.
The company that made the robot, called OpenAI, saw that their robot friend was having trouble.
They quickly said they found the problem and were trying to fix it so the robot could be helpful again very soon.
Thousands of users reported issues with OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Problems began to be logged shortly before 3:00 PM ET.
Down Detector showed over 1,000 reported issues within half an hour.
OpenAI confirmed the disruption on its status page.
The company stated they had identified the issue and were working to resolve it.
- Who
- OpenAI
- What
- ChatGPT experienced a widespread outage
- When
- Shortly before 3:00 PM ET
- Where
- Global (affecting thousands of users)
- Why
- Technical issues
- Service Affected
- ChatGPT
- Issue Start Time
- Shortly before 3:00 PM ET
- Peak Reports
- Over 2,600
- OpenAI Confirmation
- Confirmed and working to mitigate