IS ChatGPT down? OpenAI’s flagship AI productivity platform ChatGPT was down for some users for more than four hours on Tuesday. This included the web and mobile apps. It came back online for a while but went offline once again. ChatGPT is prone to some minor outages in the way it generates images or text, but this was the first widespread outage in a while. The first reports appeared on outage tracking website DownDetector at about 02:30 ET this morning with issues on the web, mobile app and desktop app. OpenAI says it identified the issue that caused the outage at about 04:00 ET and was working on a fix to restore service. The first reports appeared on outage tracking website DownDetector at about 02:30 ET this morning with issues on the web, mobile app and desktop app. OpenAI says it identified the issue that caused the outage at about 04:00 ET and was working on a fix to restore services. As of 05:00 ET it was still “working on a fix for this issue.” Services started to return at about 07:45 ET and were off again by 10:30 ET. As of 1:59 pm ET, OpenAI said a ‘hard refresh’ may be necessary for users of ChatGPT on web at chatgpt.com. While ChatGPT appears stable now it’s worth checking out our guide to ChatGPT alternatives — including Claude 3 and MetaAI. s. As of 05:00 ET it was still “working on a fix for this issue.” Services started to return at about 07:45 ET and were off again by 10:30 ET. As of 1:59 pm ET, OpenAI said a ‘hard refresh’ may be necessary for users of ChatGPT on web at chatgpt.com. After an outage took down OpenAI’s ChatGPT service for a few hours during Tuesday’s early hours, the service experienced another major outage during the daytime in the US. “ChatGPT is unavailable for some users,” said OpenAI in its status message. “We are currently investigating this issue.” The second round of issues started at around 10:30AM ET, with thousands of reports of issues showing up on Downdetector. Many users of the ChatGPT mobile apps and the web service were not seeing replies; however, at about 1:17PM ET, OpenAI confirmed the issue was resolved. Around the same time that ChatGPT had its issues, some users reported problems with Google Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude AI, and Perplexity AI web search. Google Gemini appears to be widely available, and people were able to access Claude again pretty quickly. By 1:30PM ET, Perplexity confirmed that its AI search tool had also been restored. The last major outage to hit ChatGPT came in November when the service was down for around 90 minutes, which also impacted OpenAI’s API services. The API appears to be unaffected in this latest outage. OpenAI later revealed that the November outage was related to a DDoS attack.