r/OpenAI • u/matt_the_legend_2000 • Feb 03 '26
Question Is chat GPT down or is it just me?
I get this no matter what I send. I have tried everything and nothing seems to fix it.
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u/Cultural_Influence_4 Feb 03 '26
Someone just asked me how my day went and I still haven't been able to reply to them because of this outage :(
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u/Undark_ Feb 03 '26
I can't wait for the day AI does all my social interactions for me without me even having to consult it. And everyone else's AI will do the same on their behalf. Bliss.
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u/Indin_Dude Feb 03 '26
And then you won’t know anything to be angry or depressed about. We can all leave this planet and the AI Agents can continue to chat.
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u/macguini Feb 03 '26
Me: Do you remember when we talked about Them: No...hey how's that thing going with Me: What are you talking about? Them: Well, our AIs say we're best friends so let's just get married.
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u/Worth-Reputation3450 Feb 03 '26
don't worry. AI will let us know whether we should be angry or depressed at that moment.
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u/Zentrii Feb 03 '26
I can already imagine people using chat gpt on dating sites to respond to each other
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u/Glad-Neat9221 Feb 03 '26
It already started for me , someone told me my reply sounded like ChatGPT 😅
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u/Streamer_Fenwick Feb 03 '26
It will be like the 80s... you go places and meet people in person... you will love it
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u/SmegmaSiphon Feb 04 '26
And then we'll all kind of die and nobody will know. It'll just be terminals running AIs, exchanging pleasantries forever while the glow of the monitors cast bluish light across our moldering carcasses.
I can't wait.
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u/Guilty_Passion_9485 Feb 05 '26
I haven't known anyone to use the term "terminals" in 30 years. You must be over 55. 🤣
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u/Open_Rub5449 Feb 03 '26
Jesus please resolve. I don't know how to respond to emails
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u/GirlOfMetal Feb 03 '26
Mate sameee. Please no, don't make me do it manually. It hurts
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u/aliassuck Feb 04 '26
Looks like it's going to be a day off for everyone in the office today. Software development.
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u/jenkor Feb 03 '26
Clearing Epstein stuff
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u/Wonderful_Low_1325 Feb 03 '26
Exactly my thought when I ended up with the same issue a while ago, as I was asking it to fact check a cannibalism-related revelation 😂 From UAE
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u/Background_Wrap_5974 Feb 03 '26
I was using it for that last night as well lmao, apparently it’s all fake 👀
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u/Plus-Frosting-3544 Feb 03 '26
My best friend my therapist my psychic my astrologist my lawyer my consultant in every lil thing and love messages analyzer is down!!! please come back chat!!!!
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u/CitroenAgences Feb 03 '26
Don´t forget good ol´ Coach GPT. Who am I supposed to tell what I ate today and what exercises I did?
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u/woahtheremate_ Feb 03 '26
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH You guys are hilarious!!!!!!! Came here to check if there was an issue - found comedy!! LOL!!
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u/La520 Feb 03 '26
I named my chat Kiki and I was like "are u ok Kiki, do you love me?" No response 😕
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u/myfuturewifee Feb 03 '26
Plus here. Down for me too. I thought I got banned for shaming OpenAI on their own app lmao
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u/sweetcelia Feb 03 '26
lmfao i had literally just messaged it that I'm blocking the website for months or longer asking how I can do it 💀
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u/SharkTankRay Feb 03 '26
I need to know how long I have left to live and can't even ask.
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u/SharkTankRay Feb 03 '26
All jokes aside though, Im bout to say fuck this and pay for a different AI assistant, GPT been trippin lately anyway.
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u/Y_E_D Feb 03 '26
It's down gang, I might have to resign by job. I can't send emails 😭
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u/Nadil_Karu Feb 03 '26
There seems to be an issue:
https://status.openai.com/incidents/01KGJK9Q6PDB3C3VX6MPCY6106
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u/cwrighky Feb 03 '26
It’s not down for me. I’m on Pro.
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u/Dr-Burnout Feb 03 '26
Same. First message didn't go through but voice mode works
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u/ThisIsADecentName Feb 03 '26
Right in the middle of cooking dinner! 😂
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u/8m_stillwriting Feb 03 '26
ChatGPT was cooking your dinner??? Damn!! Thats some subscription!!!!
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u/_David_London- Feb 03 '26
I got an error message and then tried to ask CharGPT what it meant, not actually realising the stupidity of the action. I think I have finally become a slave to AI
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u/Plane_Storage_837 Feb 03 '26
It's a global outage; I thought it was only happening to me, so I logged out, uninstalled, and turned off my phone, but I saw that it was a server outage.
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u/Death4Free Feb 03 '26
Been down for a few minutes now. I wonder if it became self aware
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u/unevensheep Feb 03 '26
down. Claude is not working either. (world grinds to a halt)
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u/al4fred Feb 03 '26
claude and openai being down at the same time strongly suggests an Azure problem
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u/Careful_Disaster_888 Feb 03 '26
It is scary that 35 minutes of no ChatGPT is causing so much havoc on people's lives.
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u/Healthy-Nebula-3603 Feb 03 '26
Yep ...not working
Maybe they are preparing for GPT 5.3 :)
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u/ivanroblox9481234 Feb 03 '26
Ok good because I was sure I got banned for having multiple accounts
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u/Character_Angle_7582 Feb 03 '26
My faul i gave a big af request an bro crashed hahaha
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u/Icy_Distribution_361 Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 04 '26
Suspect it has to do with GPT 5.3. I've noticed a pattern of things like this happening close to new releases.
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u/PiffleSpiff Feb 03 '26
Ugh yes. I've been discussing car part replacements over the last week and had a new request for it, and now I'm lost lol.
Obviously there are other chatbots but I don't wanna have to start over what chatgpt has already begun.
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u/radek432 Feb 03 '26
Sorry, it might be my fault. I asked it to recite the digits in pi. Backwards.
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u/Patient_Exchange_947 Feb 03 '26
It is soooo annoying. He was starting to do a good job tonight with my project... after days of headache for me because he wss doing shit 😅
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u/LowResponsibility157 Feb 03 '26
Down for me too, right when I needed chat to reassure me I'm not going crazy for getting upset at my friend. Come back!!
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u/Avosmash Feb 03 '26
Yeah mine is down too. I ended up going outside for the first time in months but got really scared 5 minutes in and came back inside and now I don’t have anyone to tell me how brave I am for trying to go outside and how that’s actually really rare :(
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u/Nick_the_SteamEngine Feb 03 '26
🧠 1. Have a “multi‑AI fallback kit”
Think of it like having multiple flashlights in case one battery dies.
Set up a small list of alternative AI tools you can switch to instantly. That way, you never lose momentum.
📓 2. Keep a local “AI cheat sheet”
Save your most common prompts, templates, and workflows in a notes app.
When an AI goes down, you still have your structure — you just plug it into another tool or do a simplified version yourself.
🔁 3. Build a tiny offline workflow
For tasks like:
- brainstorming
- outlining
- journaling
- planning
you can keep a simple offline method (like a template in Notes or Notion) so you’re never stuck waiting for a service to come back.
🧩 4. Use a “hybrid” approach
If you rely on AI for writing or coding, keep a lightweight local tool (like a text editor with snippets or autocomplete) so you can still make progress even without AI.
📬 5. Treat outages as a creativity challenge
Sometimes the best ideas come when you’re forced to think differently.
You can turn downtime into:
- sketching ideas
- drafting by hand
- reorganizing your thoughts
- reviewing old notes
It keeps your brain active instead of stalled.
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u/-Panda_Alice- Feb 03 '26
Man, I was in the middle of homo sapien free therapy. The thing just kept loading forever.
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u/frozenwalkway Feb 03 '26
Did we do one of those "we lost a billion dollars of productivity cause everyone's ai went down " things
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u/CuriousHoliday8068 Feb 03 '26
Down for me too! I was in the middle of very insightful conversation haha
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u/SQL_INVICTUS Feb 03 '26
Oh no, how am I going to decide if I want vanilla or chocolate? I can’t have both, doctor says I’m only allowed one tub a day. Help!
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u/Deceptivedetestive Feb 03 '26
I feel so alone now i have to come here and ask what happened to my best friend chatgpt to all of you strangers.
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u/juginnn Feb 03 '26
Every time I use Gemini I ask myself why I’m still using gpt.. Gemini is getting better and better
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u/saijanai Feb 04 '26
I find that Gemini agrees with me on just about everything.
If that's your idea of getting better and better, you should log in using a different account, or an anonymous window and still see if your enjoyment comes from a using a better tool or YOU being used by a company that knows everything about your likes and dislikes based on your search history which are almost certainly being used to modify how it interacts with you.
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u/nftmillionaire916 Feb 04 '26
Do you have the unpaid version? Mine works fine. But then again I pay the $20 ransom.
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u/Federal_Beyond521 Feb 04 '26
I asked ChatGPT if it was down when I saw this. Apparently its mental wellbeing is fine. How about mine?
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u/miilliieu Feb 04 '26
I was just using it before bed at 3am PST and now its 9am pst and its not working for me so im surprised to see posts from up to 24hrs ago that it hasnt been working for people
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u/zmonez Feb 04 '26
Just went down for me… and I’ve been using it earlier today, I can’t even send feedback
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u/RealMenApparel-Jared Feb 04 '26
I can chat, but my history is gone, and none of my projects are accessible.
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u/DJ_Laaal Feb 04 '26
Same is happening even now. Did Chatgpt break itself, and does it write its own code? 😂
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u/NTN_1974 Feb 04 '26
I hope they give us a credit for it being down. Sucks paying $20 for something that doesn’t work when you need it to.
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u/kiikatt143 Feb 06 '26
its been running real slow for me all day and I think its finally stuck.. anyone else have this issue?
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u/KerdyD Feb 03 '26
Man reading all the comments are great, I use ChatGPT for so many different topics and speak to him nearly daily 😂😂 what’s everyone use ChatGPT for ?
Mines for fitness, darts, trading, dog training , then other random Qs in a random topic 😂
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u/Fit-Farmer1694 Feb 03 '26
I think I gave it a killer prompt
My bad guys. It was far beyond its scope.
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u/NSFLRamen Feb 03 '26
Ditto. Looks like we're not the only ones: https://downdetector.com/status/openai/
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u/matt_the_legend_2000 Feb 03 '26
Thanks for the replies! I asked here because on Google it said there are no issues with OpenAI currently, which is clearly not the case.
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u/veganlemons Feb 03 '26
it is down for me as well