'Manager Asking Me To Use My Brain For Work': Users Flood X With Witty Tweets As ChatGPT Goes Down

OpenAI acknowledged that the ChatGPT outage is being investigated and a fix could be expected soon.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, acknowledged the issue on its status page, stating that an "elevated error rate" was registered for ChatGPT and API.

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ChatGPT Down: A widespread service disruption crippled ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot, leaving millions of users unable to access the platform on Thursday evening. Users across the globe reported difficulties connecting, encountering error messages, and experiencing significant delays in loading times.

The outage impacted a diverse user base, most of whom took to X (formerly Twitter) to express grievances. While some resorted to hilarious GIFs, some warned not to share screenshots of outages without hiding their IPs, as that would give away your location instantly.

What Did OpenAI Say?

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, acknowledged the issue on its status page, stating that an "elevated error rate" was registered for ChatGPT and API. 

After investigating the issue, at around 6:15 pm IST, OpenAI updated its status page confirming that services had resumed normalcy. ABP Live could independently verify the same.

While OpenAI didn't share details, potential factors include server overload, technical malfunctions, or planned maintenance activities.

Users Take To X To Flag Outage

In classic X tradition, the microblogging platform was overrun with witty gifs and angry tweets. Here's a selection:

ChatGPT is down😱 Now my manager is asking me to use my brain for doing the work😰 pic.twitter.com/0TaNAVrGZX

— Aastha Mishra (@code_shadow24) January 23, 2025

When ChatGPT goes down for 5 minutes pic.twitter.com/JvBTiB9gRF

— Brandon Luu, MD (@BrandonLuuMD) January 23, 2025

ChatGPT IS DOWN, this is why we need a to decentralized AI

— 0xCrusader (@0xcrusaderB) January 23, 2025

ChatGPT is down pic.twitter.com/WpOzmZaSIJ

— Prof. Ahmed Banafa (@BanafaAhmed) January 23, 2025

chatgpt down pic.twitter.com/berrfjYu6g

— z (@zaiiaragon) January 23, 2025

Tip for you all, so the next time when you go posting on X about chatgpt being down, make sure you have blurred you ip address.

I got a dozen of people who just posted the image without hiding their IP.

Got their location within a minute. Be smart.#ChatGPTdown pic.twitter.com/G8pBDsdTuJ

— R3DD (@R3DD404) January 23, 2025

Tip for you all, so the next time when you go posting on X about chatgpt being down, make sure you have blurred you ip address.

I got a dozen of people who just posted the image without hiding their IP.

Got their location within a minute. Be smart.#ChatGPTdown pic.twitter.com/G8pBDsdTuJ

— R3DD (@R3DD404) January 23, 2025