ChatGPT down as over 1000 users report chatbot not responding

CHONGQING, CHINA - AUGUST 9: In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone displaying the ChatGPT logo on its screen in front of a blurred OpenAI logo on August 9, 2025 in Chongqing, China. (Photo illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty Images)
OpenAI have acknowledged problems this morning (Picture: Getty)

ChatGPT users struggled to access the chatbot this morning, with OpenAI’s status page warning ‘We’re currently experiencing issues’.

They said they were ‘investigating the issue’, and later updated the page to say things were fully operational again,

Reports on DownDetector spiked shortly after 7.30am this morning, with over a thousands reports so far.

The status page warned that popular large language model ChatGPT was ‘not displaying resources’, saying: ‘We are investigating the issue for the listed services.’

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OpenAI’s status page says they are investigating (Picture: Openai.com)

Frustrated users said they could not see responses to questions, and just saw a blank space.

Others said that the AI service appeared to be working on the website, but not the app.

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Reports of outages spiked after 7am this morning (Picture: Downdetector)

OpenAI rolled out GPT-5 last month, describing it as ‘our smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet, with thinking built in’.

It includes access to reasoning where you can see an explanation of how it reached an answer.

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