Global ChatGPT Outage: The AI is not responding, what's going on?

You may have noticed: ChatGPT is down. No requests can be made, the AI is out of service. It's enough to visit the social network X to realize that the problem affects users from different regions around the world. We have also noticed users from Spain, France, or the United States facing this outage.

my chatgpt is not down https://t.co/OOH5c4LstN

— nic (@nicdunz) April 20, 2026

ChatGPT is down worldwide

On X, posts about this are multiplying. You can read, for example, « Is ChatGPT down? Please tell me it's not just me », « Is ChatGPT down? I've lost access to all my conversations, projects, etc. », or « ChatGPT just went down, how am I supposed to do anything now? ». It's therefore possible to sense a wave of panic and a kind of despair among some ChatGPT users. In all cases, if you are experiencing this issue, you are not alone.

Heads up — ChatGPT appears to be down right now.
AI Analysis: Users are currently unable to load ChatGPT and Codex services, indicating a potential service availability issue. Est. recovery: 1–3h.https://t.co/GoZWFi3ffj

— Bentley Junggil Park (@p2c2kbf) April 20, 2026

On our side, we have been disconnected from our session, and it is currently impossible to reconnect. It's worth noting that other AI systems on the market seem to be functioning without problems. On its website, OpenAI states that it is investigating « this issue concerning » ChatGPT, Codex, and the API platform. The investigations are ongoing. Now it remains to be seen what is the cause of this outage. Has ChatGPT been hacked? Is the problem purely technical? We should know soon.

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