The ChatGPT Outage: What Happened and What Users Experienced.
OpenAI's ChatGPT and Labs experienced a major outage due to an underlying capacity failure, causing frustration for ChatGPT Plus subscribers who pay for general access even during peak times. OpenAI is adding extra capacity to resolve the issue and has restored paid labs traffic while working towards restoring free traffic. Some users are turning to the OpenAI Playground while waiting for ChatGPT to be fixed. OpenAI is gradually rolling out a fix for some ChatGPT users as capacity allows, and the service has been restored, but conversation history may not be available.