ChatGPT down as users report login and conversation issues
ChatGPT down complaints were linked to degraded performance affecting ChatGPT and APIs, according to OpenAI’s status page.
OpenAI reported two resolved incidents affecting ChatGPT on 29 May, following user reports of issues with conversations, logins, and account creation.
The first incident affected users trying to log in or create an account. OpenAI classified the issue as degraded performance affecting ChatGPT and APIs. The company began investigating at 03:12 a.m., applied a mitigation at 03:28 a.m., and marked the incident resolved at 04:57 a.m.
A second incident affected ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI began investigating the issue at 03:18 a.m., applied a mitigation at 03:29 a.m., and marked the incident resolved at 04:58 a.m. The company said all impacted services had fully recovered.
OpenAI’s official status page listed both incidents as degraded performance rather than a full outage. The company did not provide further details on the cause of either disruption in the incident updates.
The brief disruption highlights the growing reliance on AI services for daily work, communication, and software development, as even short periods of degraded performance can affect users and organisations that depend on cloud-based AI tools.
Why does it matter?
The incidents show how widely used AI services are becoming part of everyday digital infrastructure. Even brief login or conversation failures can disrupt work for individuals, developers, businesses, and teams that rely on ChatGPT and related API services.
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