SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI is experiencing an outage Thursday, causing many users to error out when using ChatGPT or Sora. The tech company says the outage is caused by an “upstream provider” issue. The outage began around 2 p.m. ET, according to DownDetector. Nearly 15,000 people were reporting outages at that time.

ChatGPT is down is a mass outage. OpenAI has identified the issue, and they are "currently monitoring," the company said.

The digital world was briefly thrown into disarray earlier today as ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot from OpenAI, experienced a widespread outage, leaving millions of users stranded without their go-to source for everything from coding advice to existential pondering.

OpenAI’s much-used ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot is down, with scores of social media users reporting complaints. Others noted issues with OpenAI’s Sora video-generation model. “We are currently experiencing an issue with high error rates on ChatGPT,

ChatGPT stopped functioning for many users on Thursday afternoon, with OpenAI saying that its AI app was experiencing glitches for some. "ChatGPT, the API and Sora are currently experiencing high error rates.

It's not your internet, it's not your computer, it's not you. What really happened is that OpenAI's chatbot called 'ChatGPT' is not working worldwide.