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ChatGPT Down for Thousands of Users Monday, Downdetector Reports
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By Anthony W. Haddad
Published 3 weeks ago on
August 31, 2026

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ChatGPT experienced a possible outage Monday, according to Downdetector.com.

More than 2,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 9:01 a.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources.

ChatGPT’s status checker says, “We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services. Plus users are particularly impacted, where Work mode is currently unavailable.”

Update at 11:06 a.m.

More than 10,000 users have now reported an issue with ChatGPT.

The status checker now says, “User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing work on implementing a mitigation.”

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Anthony W. Haddad, who graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with his undergraduate degree and attended Fresno State for a MBA, is the Swiss Army knife of GV Wire. He writes stories, manages social media, and represents the organization on the ground.
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