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OpenAI ChatGPT outage sees server down worldwide, user conversation chats go missing

OpenAI has confirmed that certain ChatGPT services have gone down as they has been hit by an outage. The company is investigating and has released some preliminary details.

Sayan Sen Neowin @ssc_combater007 · Dec 2, 2025 15:06 EST with 4 comments

OpenAI has confirmed that some of the ChatGPT online chatbot services are currently down . The company confirmed this via its official OpenAI status page as it notes that ChatGPT is down and conversations are affected with "degared performance". It writes:

Investigating

We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

Wed, Dec 3, 2025, 01:27 AM

Identified

We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services.

We are working on implementing a mitigation.

We will update the story once more details are availble.