ChatGPT outage: Users report issues in generating AI photos, company says 'sorry'

OpenAI ’s popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT, has been hit by a global outage , leaving hundreds of users across the US and India unable to generate images. The disruption triggered reports on outage tracker Downdetector, with users encountering problems with accessing the chatbot and/or generating AI photos, as per outage tracker, downdetector.

Addressing the disruption directly, OpenAI acknowledged the image creation glitch in a statement posted to X (formerly Twitter):