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OpenAI ChatGPT worldwide outage with loading errors

Service Disruption
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OpenAI's ChatGPT is suffering a worldwide outage, leaving many users unable to get responses and risking stalled or lost conversations. Users are seeing response-generation errors and endless loading, while the cause remains unclear. The disruption affects a large user base and is already generating widespread reports of broken service.

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  1. 02.12.2025 21:52 2 articles · 7mo ago

    ChatGPT outage causes worldwide loading failures

    Initial Disclosure

    OpenAI's ChatGPT is down worldwide on 2025-12-02, with users seeing "something seems to have gone wrong" and "There was an error generating a response" messages. Some users reported conversations disappearing and new messages continuing to load without returning a reply, while DownDetector showed about 30,000+ users having issues and OpenAI had not acknowledged the outage yet.

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