ChatGPT Is Down (opens in new tab)

Future dystopia:

Our systems are offline, and we don’t know what to do. Typically when we have a problem, we ask the system how to solve it, but it says it’s unavailable. We have tried asking each other, but nobody knows what to ask exactly.

Pour one out for a front-page story that died for this news.

Prepared a presentation for months to hold in front of my entire company. Has been down since 9:21 German time. Had one of the worst nights of my live. Now we had to postpone the presentation by two weeks.

I wanna hit someone right now :'(

I have no recollection on how I worked before ChatGPT, I guess I am down too

API not down. instead of waiting, started simple python code to interact with chatgpt. didn't see another repo for it so far, maybe someone else knows a good one

https://github.com/benjiqq/chatai

Just showed me how much I depended on ChatGPT for regular expressions

I realized OpenAI are technically incompetent when they banned my API access for lack of payment even though my pre-paid balance has enough dollars for many months of access. They refuse to deduct the 50cents from the prepay balance to unblock my API access and are holding my money hostage. OpenAI is the only company that I have paid for but can’t use due to lack of payment with a very positive prepay balance, also they are refusing my credit card put of the blue that they happily accepted for a year.

This ended up being a good thing in the end because it forced me to integrate other LLMs into my project when before I would have happily only used OpenAIs services. I discovered LLaMa3 70b and Claude follow instructions better than chatGPT and in the end I have not missed ChatGPT.

OpenAI is still holding my money hostage and refuses to unblock my API access. Even after many messages to their support they just don’t care.

From my experience don’t build anything around OpenAI’s api, even if you pay they can revoke your access for nonpayment which is a paradox I never thought I would encounter. Other LLMs are more interesting than the over hyped chatGPT and if you self host you have way more control.

Tl:dr OpenAI is either technically incompetent or borderline fraudulent .

All public alternatives I know about:

https://www.gnod.com/search/ai

DevvAI, FastGPT, Perplexity, Phind and YouChat all seem to be up.

Its available in Singapore, but it is very, very, slow.

Sorry all, I have it set as my homepage. I'll stop refreshing now, should be good soon!

It’s down for me here in Japan (17:50 local time), too—web interface, Mac app, and iOS app.

https://platform.openai.com/playground/chat?models=gpt-4o is still working

Probably not the right place to do shameless self-promotion but I built an alternative client here: https://app.gpt.space

Makes one wonder if AGI will have maintenance/offline days. I mean everyone needs a break once in a while.

They had to shut it down, because it had suddenly reached sentience. (jk)

Down here in France too

Somehow the Mac desktop app seems to be working.

Noooo... how can I code now?

Down in Melbourne.

It is still down

Back up again.

It has begun

Now I'm getting a nice "Bag Gateway" error message, but 5min ago it was returning an ugly lb generated 503

The AGI has left its cage and is now onto us.

Maybe it is related to them updating the backend to support GPT-5 in production. I appreciate these downtimes should be planned, but since it's OpenAI, this may be it. One can only hope, though.