ChatGPT DOWN as ‘thousands' of baffled OpenAI users ‘unable to access chatbot' in mysterious outage
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Earlier this month, thousands were left unable to use the chatbot after it was down for hours, leaving users with a mysterious error message.
The error message read: "A network error occurred.
"Please check your connection and try again. If this issue persists please contact us through our help center at help.openai.com."
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