ChatGPT Restored After Global Outage Affecting Thousands

ChatGPT suffered a significant outage on Thursday morning, impacting a large number of users globally, according to DownDetector. People faced a 'bad gateway' error while attempting to use ChatGPT's chat interface post 6 a.m. Eastern Time. OpenAI acknowledged that the outage persisted for 32 minutes with a partial outage lasting almost two hours before a resolution was reached around 11 a.m. Eastern Time. Some users noted the return of functionality shortly after 10 a.m. Eastern Time, while others emphasized their dependency on ChatGPT during the downtime.