ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI chatbot that dominates the global market, unexpectedly “frozen” early this morning. This event garnered particular attention as it occurred right after the announcement of a collaboration between OpenAI and Apple to integrate the power of ChatGPT into the virtual assistant Siri.
As soon as the incident occurred, OpenAI quickly responded:
We are experiencing a technical glitch. The technical team has identified the cause and is urgently implementing a fix. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and commit to providing the latest updates as soon as possible!
According to the timeline noted on OpenAI’s status page, the first signs of the issue appeared at 23:17 UTC on December 11 (equivalent to 18:17 EST). By 23:54, the company published its first update, indicating that the ChatGPT API might be the “culprit” behind the situation.
We received a wave of feedback from the user community regarding their inability to access the API and encountering difficulties logging into platform.openai.com and ChatGPT.
An OpenAI representative shared.
As of 00:24 on December 12, 2024, although the company confirmed it had begun addressing the issue, both ChatGPT and Sora—the newly launched AI video creation tool—remained in a “frozen” state.
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This incident has had a significant global impact, causing many tasks to be delayed and raising serious concerns within the community about society’s increasing dependence on AI tools.
