Users of ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot that has taken the internet by storm, have been reporting outages from across the world. When visiting the OpenAI tool's website — chat.openai.com — some users are faced with a spinning wheel that eventually leads to a 524 error code and a timeout.

A 524 error is a Cloudflare-specific status code indicating that the connection to the server was closed due to a timeout.

A quick check on downforeveryoneorjustme.com reveals personal accounts from several people claiming to hail from countries such as Spain, Nepal, Serbia, the United States and more over the past three days.

A few Twitter users have also posted screenshots of the AI writing system's dashboard loading to display a message: "ChatGPT is at capacity right now." This message comes when they chatbot is at maximum capacity and its servers are overworked.

#ChatGPT is down! Quick! Give your students as much homework as you can! Only then can you be sure they have actually learned...