OpenAI has confirmed that ChatGPT is experiencing a worldwide outage, with users reporting broad access problems across the service. The disruption affects the company’s popular AI chatbot, which many people use for conversations, writing help, and other interactive tasks.
According to the available details, the outage began at around 5 AM ET. Users have been unable to properly load chats, and the problem also appears to affect access to earlier conversations that would normally be visible in chat history.
The issue is not limited to one region. Reports indicate the ChatGPT outage is affecting users globally, suggesting a larger service disruption rather than isolated local network trouble. That has made the downtime especially noticeable for people relying on the platform during the day.
While the full cause was not detailed in the available report, OpenAI’s confirmation makes clear that the company is aware of the incident. The main impact so far is interrupted access to ChatGPT, including difficulties opening active chats and viewing past conversation threads.
