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Danish Kapoor
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ChatGPT crashed, OpenAI confirms issue

ChatGPT faced a major outage today. This artificial intelligence assistant, which millions of users use daily, encountered serious errors during the task initiation and completion phase. OpenAI confirmed the problem on the official channel in a short time and published a statement for affected users.

As a matter of fact, the outage started at around 18.04 Türkiye time on Monday, August 31, and a significant delay occurred in the affected services. Then ask ChatGPT Work In particular, it grew rapidly and error rates as well as delay increased significantly.

The group most affected by this cut is Plus had subscribers and these users to work mode currently cannot access. If you are trying to access Work mode, you may currently encounter error messages. However, people on other subscription plans are also experiencing similar issues starting or continuing tasks.

ChatGPT Work is an agent mode that carries out multi-step tasks on its own on behalf of users and produces work output by doing research. Thus, this feature completes multi-step tasks on behalf of the user by collecting data from applications such as Slack, Gmail and Google Drive.

OpenAI shared the latest developments regarding the outage with users

OpenAI first shared the problem on its status page and announced that the affected services were experiencing high latency as of 11.04 am. On the other hand, as the hours progressed, the incident turned into a wider error table, and OpenAI continued to update the page on the issue.

The company stated the following in its official statement: “Users on multiple subscription plans cannot start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing our work to fix the problem.” Meanwhile, as of 12:02 p.m. the outage is still ongoing and OpenAI reiterated that users on multiple subscription plans are experiencing issues.

People affected by the outage cannot start a new task or complete an ongoing task. When you try to start a new task, the system may return an error message or the process may take longer than expected. Because this glitch is caused by the high error rate and delay problem in the system.

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