{"id":1097,"date":"2026-02-04T07:17:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/chatgpt-is-back-up-after-an-outage-disrupted-use-this-afternoon\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T07:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:17:28","slug":"chatgpt-is-back-up-after-an-outage-disrupted-use-this-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/chatgpt-is-back-up-after-an-outage-disrupted-use-this-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT is back up after an outage disrupted use this afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you had trouble using ChatGPT today, you aren&#8217;t alone. The AI chatbot experienced a partial outage for many users this afternoon, with Down Detector saw reports reaching more than 12,000 reports around the peak point of the issue today.. OpenAI issued a status update shortly after noting that &#8220;elevated error rates&#8221; were occurring for ChatGPT and Platform users. That problem was marked as resolved at 5:14PM ET.<\/p>\n<p>While the initial outage may be repaired, OpenAI does still have an active status alert up. It&#8217;s only for the fine-tuning component of its API service. But the end may also be in sight for that final issue, because the current statement from the company is &#8220;We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovering.<\/p>\n<p>Another AI chatbot, Anthropic\u2019s Claude, also experienced an outage today. It <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/status.claude.com\/incidents\/pr6yx3bfr172\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\">listed<\/a> similar issues with &#8220;Elevated error rate on API across all Claude models.&#8221; That status was resolved by 1PM ET. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Update, February 3, 2025, 6:17PM ET: <\/strong>Updated to reflect the change in status and mention Claude outage.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/chatgpt-is-back-up-after-an-outage-disrupted-use-this-afternoon-210238686.html?src=rss<\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/chatgpt-is-back-up-after-an-outage-disrupted-use-this-afternoon\/\">ChatGPT is back up after an outage disrupted use this afternoon<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you had trouble using ChatGPT today, you aren&#8217;t alone. The AI chatbot experienced a partial outage for many users this afternoon, with Down Detector saw reports reaching more than 12,000 reports around the peak point of the issue today.. OpenAI issued a status update shortly after noting that &#8220;elevated error rates&#8221; were occurring for ChatGPT and Platform users. That problem was marked as resolved at 5:14PM ET. While the initial outage may be repaired, OpenAI does still have an active status alert up. It&#8217;s only for the fine-tuning component of its API service. But the end may also be in sight for that final issue, because the current statement from the company is &#8220;We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovering. Another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}