In an unexpected turn of events, users of ChatGPT, the widely popular conversational AI platform, found themselves grappling with frustration and disappointment today as the service experienced widespread lagging and technical glitches, sparking an online uproar across various social media platforms.
Reports of delayed responses, erratic behavior, and outright failures in generating coherent replies flooded X feeds.
People in offices across the world as ChatGPT goes down and they realise their boss is about to find out they are actually illiterate… pic.twitter.com/9hGRVWaK5L
— Sam (@SamCKx) June 4, 2024
Everyone coming to X to confirm chatgpt down#chatgptpic.twitter.com/JShouWDWVt
— Rudra (@invincible39) June 4, 2024
ChatGPT is down which means we are back to the middle ages
— Lucas Crespo (@lucas__crespo) June 4, 2024
Chat GPT is down, I’m not doing any actual thinking, I refuse. I’ll just sit here until it becomes available again.
— Bitcoin Lebowski (@DudeJLebowski) June 4, 2024
How am I supposed to get any work done with ChatGPT being down!?
— Dorian Develops (@DorianDevelops) June 4, 2024
Is chat gpt down? It’s been down the whole day for me. And I’m worried work might noticed I don’t know how to do my job
— Mzee Edd (@005e5n) June 4, 2024
Source: Online reactions to ChatGPT’s technical issues