ChatGPT outage hits users in India and UAE on Wednesday morning
Users of OpenAI's popular ChatGPT in India and the UAE reported issues early on Wednesday morning around 5am, with many experiencing difficulties accessing chat history and prolonged loading times for commands.
According to Downdetector, a platform that monitors website outages, 82 per cent of users globally reported an outage.
Users attempting to access the service were also met with an 'unable to load projects' message.
OpenAI acknowledged the problem on its official
The company also said it was 'working on implementing a mitigation' to address the problems.
Services were back by 7am local time.
The chatbot also previously experienced issues on
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