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ToggleChatGPT Outage: OpenAI is grappling with severe technical issues as its widely used platform, ChatGPT, faces yet another service interruption. Numerous users from nations including India and the United States, among others, have reported being unable to access the service. This incident marks the third outage within a week, coinciding with the launch of OpenAI’s Ghibli image generation feature.
As of now, the company has yet to officially acknowledge the ongoing outage. Data from Downdetector indicate that more than a hundred users in India have reported issues, whereas over 1,000 disruption reports have surfaced in the United States. While ChatGPT is primarily at the center of these complaints, some users have also experienced problems with the website itself.
Despite the unexplained nature of the outages, many users have turned to social media platform X, where they have humorously criticized ChatGPT for encountering multiple outages within a single week. Many have used this opportunity to flood their feeds with amusing memes, creative takes, videos, and tweets focusing not only on the AI service but also on its CEO, Sam Altman. Here’s a glimpse of some of the memes making the rounds:
ChatGPT Down?! pic.twitter.com/Ng7y7wwflg
— Drea T (@andrea_thomp) April 1, 2025
ChatGPT down pic.twitter.com/KfqShBMmCE
— 🙅🏽♂️ (@222×44) April 1, 2025
When ChatGPT goes down and my boss realizes he can’t actually replace me with AI 👏 pic.twitter.com/SBPA3bMEcg
— Tight Poker (@tightpoker) April 1, 2025
ChatGPT is down.
anyone else feels like this? pic.twitter.com/nzdjE3wGLL— ALEJO (@0xMarketer) April 1, 2025
The outage transpired mere hours after OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, announced via X that the ChatGPT Image Generation tool is now accessible to all users for free. In this tweet, Altman exclaimed, “ChatGPT image generation is now available to all free users!”
This Ghibli-style image generation feature, which was until recently exclusive to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, has ignited quite a buzz on social media. Following the rush of enthusiasm, CEO Sam Altman humorously pleaded on X, “Can y’all please chill on generating images? This is insane. Our team needs sleep.”
However, Altman later revealed that due to the overwhelming influx of requests, the GPUs were overstressed, leading the company to impose limits on free-tier users, restricting them to generating only three images per day.