OpenAI’s ChatGPT Outage Ignites Meme Fest Across Social Platforms

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Outage Ignites Meme Fest Across Social Platforms

OpenAI’s ChatGPT recently experienced a widespread outage, with many users, primarily from the United States, reporting issues with the AI application. OpenAI confirmed the glitches, which were affecting the user experience. OpenAI acknowledged the global outage on X, formerly known as Twitter.

We are almost fully back online now, we appreciate your patience!
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) December 27, 2024

According to Downdetector, a platform created by Ookla to monitor the performance of online services and websites, thousands of people reported issues while using ChatGPT between 12 am and 3 am.

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The official statement read, “Most of ChatGPT, the API, and Sora have been down for a couple of hours and we’re sorry for the trouble this is causing. We’ve identified the issue and have started recovery. We hope to be back asap.” Later, the AI company confirmed that the issues causing the outage are almost resolved. It said, “We are almost fully back online now, we appreciate your patience!”

Well, @ChatGPTapp ‘s down, back to using my own brain again.#chatgptdown @OpenAI pic.twitter.com/14DU5qD6GP
— Keords (@keords) December 26, 2024

Following the breakdown, social media quickly filled with memes and reactions as users humorously expressed their frustrations over the disruption.

Some of the top comments on social media included, “BREAKING: ChatGPT is down globally. Productivity is about to take a nose dive everywhere.”, “Well, ChatGPT’s down, back to using my own brain again.”, “Well, #ChatGPT seems to be down now but annoyed me e the entire day by proposing a dysfunctional Python code for Deep Learning that crashes already reading the csv-file”, “Sat down to study opened iPad and chatgpt is down. I refuse to google like a caveman”, “Anyone else experiencing severe ChatGPT withdrawal symptoms? 🤪”, “ChatGPT is down…You mean I actually have to think for myself?”, “ChatGPT being down right now has me feeling like it’s saying “it’s still a holiday give me a break”…like”, “I just spent three hours writing a question for #chatgpt n it’s down”, “Most of ya’ll trying to form even a simple coherent sentence while ChatGPT is down” and more.

Yes ChatGPT is down once again. pic.twitter.com/pNaqn0yYVH
— Cash ☘️ (@Celtics_Cash) December 26, 2024

Everyone running to twitter to check if chatgpt is down for anyone else.#chatgpt #chatgptdown #ai pic.twitter.com/LSIXjAaCM6
— Plata (@AbelPlata) December 26, 2024