A major outage occurred in OpenAI's ChatGPT on Tuesday evening, December 2. About this witness data from the DownDetector portal, which monitors site and service errors.
According to the portal, problems with chatbots have been recorded worldwide, with the majority of requests coming from people in the Netherlands, the US, Germany, Poland and Kazakhstan.
Users are reporting general ChatGPT issues, problems with notifications, and logging into their personal accounts.
ChatGPT has not yet commented on the service error status.
Let us remind you that global service disruptions have been recorded many times. As a result, the problems were discovered on December 11, 2024. On December 26, Down detector registered 14 thousand complaints about the service. Most users from the US, Netherlands, Germany and Kazakhstan complained.
On June 10, 2025, users around the world reported chat issues. They note that the issues not only affect ChatGPT, but also other OpenAI tools such as Sora (an AI-based text-to-video tool) and the OpenAI API.
On September 3, 2025, people in the Netherlands, US, and Germany noted that they were experiencing problems using the web version of the chatbot. They clarify that the mobile app works fine, without any glitches.
Experts noticed that the development company promptly responds to requests and quickly eliminates the causes of errors. At the same time, there are cases where the problem lasts about 12 hours.
