Trending: ChatGPT outage leads to memefest on the internet

Hundreds of users, according to Downdetector, have filed reports in the last couple of hours, indicating issues with the AI platform, sparking a meme fest online.

OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT, was unavailable to several users worldwide. Although the developer has not issued a statement yet, according to Downdetector, a site that monitors online service disruptions, hundreds of users have filed complaints, with over 500 reports from India alone.

Memefest on the internet after the ChatGPT outage.

Users worldwide reported various issues, including being unable to log in completely and encountering network errors on both the web and mobile app versions of ChatGPT. However, as soon as the platform went down, social media platforms were flooded with reactions. Many resorted to memes and jokes about being unable to finish tasks. Some others even humorously questioned how they would survive the workday without their AI assistant.

Watch the viral memes below:

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Social media reacts to ChatGPT outage with memes.

One user wrote, “I don’t even know what to write as caption for this post about ChatGPT is down after ChatGPt is down.” Another wrote, “#ChatGPT is down, and now I need to draft my own emails. Dark times i tell you!” “ChatGPT is down and I’m forced to use my own brain,” wrote a third user. A fourth user joked, “Now that ChatGPT is down, I have to write everything manually. Damn.”