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ChatGPT is back online after an hour-long outage that left users around the world unable to access the AI chatbot
- Reports that the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT was down started at 08:45 GMT
- The crash reportedly affected subscribers who pay for the new version, GPT-4
- OpenAI, the company behind it, has yet to respond to the incident
ChatGPT is back online, after a crash, users around the world were unable to use the AI chatbot.
According to Down Detector, the problems started around 08:45 GMT and affected users worldwide.
While the reason for the outage remains unclear, 82 percent of those who reported problems said they had issues with ChatGPT, 11 percent with logging in, and 7 percent with the website.
Users flocked to social media to express their dismay at being unable to access the revolutionary artificial intelligence tool.
One said, ‘OMG!!! Thought it was just me! ChatGPT is down worldwide. And I can’t think for myself anymore, so that’s a problem!!! #ChatGPT’
ChatGPT crashed this morning, preventing users around the world from using the AI chatbot
According to Down Detector, the problems with ChatGPT started around 08:45 GMT and are affecting users worldwide
Another added: “Thousands of people don’t know what to write right now… Since #ChatGP #OpenAI isn’t working!”
Some expressed disappointment that those paying the $20 (£16.40) monthly subscription to ChatGPT Plus are not getting their money’s worth.
This service currently offers a stripped down version of GPT-4 – the new and even more powerful version of the AI chatbot.
One Twitter user wrote: “ChatGPT+ users who actually pay so they don’t get a c****y service have been unable to use Chat GPT for hours now….
“It’s okay if you don’t pay for a service, but I’m not paying $20 a month for this. Worst, no updates/communication about the problem’
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has yet to respond to the outage.
ChatGPT is a large language model trained on a huge amount of text data, which allows it to generate human-like text responses to a given prompt.
The current version, released in November by start-up OpenAI, is known as GPT3.5 and appears to have a huge range of capabilities.
For example, it has been used to take exams, deliver a sermon, write software, and provide relationship advice.
But the new, more powerful version, GPT-4, was released to ChatGPT Plus subscribers last week.
This can accept input in the form of images as well as text, but still outputs its responses in text, meaning it can provide detailed image descriptions.
OpenAI has already developed a text-to-image AI, DALL-E, which was released last year.
Users flocked to social media to express their dismay at being unable to access the revolutionary artificial intelligence tool, ChatGPT