ChatGPT went down and social media erupted into panic
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Over the past year or so, ChatGPT has become integral to many people’s lives.The large language model (LLM) appears to be used by everyone on the planet, whether for work, pleasure, or amusement.This event is an interesting case study in how people use the internet as an emotional regulator for actually being on the internet, a sort of meta commentary on existence in the modern time.Popular AI chatbot ChatGPT is currently experiencing widespread outages, preventing users from engaging in conversations or accessing their chat history.
Before we arrive there, though, let’s have a closer look at what happened when ChatGPT went down.
Unable To Access Chatbot

Popular AI chatbot ChatGPT is currently experiencing widespread service disruptions, leaving millions of users unable to access the platform. Users are reporting difficulties connecting to the service, experiencing error messages, or encountering slow loading times.On Jan. 23, the company reported on its status page that it was “currently experiencing elevated error rates in the API” and that it was investigating the problem.
User’s reaction on chatGPT-It’s an interesting bit of psychology, with people flooding from one side of the internet (ChatGPT) to the other (social media) when the service suffered an outage.This outage is likely to impact a wide range of users, including students, researchers, professionals, and those who utilize ChatGPT for creative writing, content generation, and other tasks.Some people, for example, created memes about how individuals reacted when the news of the ChatGPT outage broke, specifically the habit of heading to other social media sites to find out what’s going on.