ChatGPT Outage In India: Company Confirms Issues With Mobile App For Users
ChatGPT users in India are facing issues with the AI chatbot app from OpenAI on Wednesday afternoon. The outage has been confirmed via multiple reports on Downdetector and the company itself has acknowledged the issue, as 'elevated error rate with ChatGPT' being mentioned on the OpenAI status page.
Many ChatGPT users have shared their frustration with delayed responses from the AI chatbot, while some of them are not able to access the platform altogether.
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