ChatGPT back online after outage which hit thousands worldwide [Video]

Downdetector, which tracks website outages, showed more than 10,000 people reported the AI chatbot, which is made by OpenAI, was not working in the UK on Thursday.

Users attempting to access it were met with a message reading “the web server reported a bad gateway error”.

OpenAI said on its status page a fix was implemented at 15:09 GMT, and the firm was “monitoring the results”.

It has not yet publicly commented on the cause of the outage, which began at around 11:00 GMT on Thursday.

However, many people took to social media to highlight the problem and the disruption it caused them.

Some of those posting on X about the outage were able to see the funny side of the situation, however.

“ChatGPT is down again? During the work day? So you’re …