ChatGPT was down: a brief outage for the AI chatbot, but it’s now fixed

OpenAI applied a fix to resolve errors with the conversations component of ChatGPT

By John McCann Updated October 23, 2025

Chatbot on a smartphone. — Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends

If you received an error message while using ChatGPT today, you weren’t alone. Thousands of users are reported that ChatGPT was down.

OpenAI – the company behind the well-known AI chatbot – quickly confirmed the issue and implemented a fix a little over an hour after initial reports.

ChatGPT outage: key updates

9:10 AM PDT: OpenAI confirms “we have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.”
9:04 AM PDT: OpenAI updates status, saying “Error rates are starting to reduce. We are investigating the issue for the listed services.”
8:39 AM PDT: OpenAI says it’s “investigating the issue for the listed services”
8:09 AM PDT: OpenAI confirms “increased errors on ChatGPT conversations”
8:00 AM PDT: Reports that OpenAI has an issue start to spike on Downdetector

ChatGPT outage: as it happened

Last updated October 23, 2025 9:21 AM

John McCann

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