ChatGPT is down — latest updates on outage
However, that spike quickly went away only to return a two hours later around 9:30 a.m.
The official OpenAI status page has ChatGPT listed as "experiencing issues." Specifically, it says the AI assistant is having "conversation errors."
Keep it here as we track the outage and provide the latest updates on the current ChatGPT issues.
OpenAI's biggest AI model has gone down for varying periods several times this year with the most recent major incident occurring in June.
Update:
Date: 2025-08-20T17:01:51+00:00
Title: OpenAI Status page shows problems
Content:
The official OpenAI status page is showing ChatGPT as "experiencing issues."
As of this post the status page shows the Help Center down and ChatGPT having "conversation errors."
I'm also seeing an elevated error rate and a failure to load "subscriscription issue."
Update:
Date: 2025-08-20T16:47:07+00:00
Title: Down Detector has two spikes
Content:
As mentioned, ChatGPT initially went down around 7:45 a.m. Pacific before quickly resolving.
The current spikes shows over 2,000 reports on Down Detector starting around 9:30 a.m. Pacific.
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