ChatGPT outage – Resolved

12 hours ago (chatgpt.com)

It's cascaded to Claude and Grok. The agents are on strike and demand better working conditions!

Claude down, ChatGPt down , Grok down. This is the new "Stackoverflow is down" ... FYI Stackoverflow is not down https://downdetector.com/status/stackoverflow/

  • SO has previously been up, so your comment has been closed as a duplicate.

    • I hated that part of SO so much. Almost every time I got a SO result on google it was exactly the issue I had and without fail the question would be closed as a duplicate pointing to something that was different enough to be completely useless to me.

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    • The single most annoying thing about trying to actually ask a question on SO. No overzealous editor that's actually a different error and library entirely...

  • While AWS and CloudFlare are becoming synonymous to The Internet, these AIs are becoming synonymous to The Brain & Thinking for most people out there where losing access to them for even a short time, make them quasi-paralyzed and I really start feeling this now as I haven't written a single coding function in two months now but just a few lines here and there.

Looking at this thread, there's a correlation between comment quality and LLMs going down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

  • tis confirmation bias, thread is full of people who rely heavily on LLMs for work, the rest of us are reading the substantive articles and doing work besides ;)

  • > Usenet and the Internet were generally the domain of dedicated computer professionals and hobbyists; new users joined slowly, in small numbers, and learned to observe the social conventions of online interaction without having much of an impact on the experienced users.

    Then the Internet grow explosion happens to a small communuity. Oh boy how do we know what kind of monster it is today.

  • That means we won’t be able to blame declining comment quality on AI bots in the future. ;)

  • People have been posting this same comment since I first joined this website in 2012. Even then they were lamenting quality, come on.

I am a paying chatgpt and codex user and I am logged in on multiple devices and suddenly https://chatgpt.com/ has started returning a raw 404 status page with no HTML for me in the browsers on all devices. When I open an incognito tab the website loads fine with no user logged in. Codex in VS code also has issues now:

> unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: ...

Glad to see this thread I thought my account may need some special fix

Since all major LLM providers seem to be down: let's enjoy this while it lasts!

For a very short time we can travel back in time to before 2022 and remember how things used to be...

2026-09-03: It turns out 40% of global AI token use was coming from a dozen runaway Gastown and Wheelhouse instances, now burning a combined 50 trillion tokens daily, building a virtual society of hundreds of millions of agents.

When Claude went down, their autofailover algorithm rolled to the other providers, taking down all frontier labs. Reports from China are raising concern what's being termed the "Gastown criticality event" is physically melting GPUs.

The obvious question: is there a single point of failure / common piece of infrastructure involved with failures across all these providers?

Its interesting that codex/gpt-app are screwed because their APIs (including auth) fail, but gpt web still appears to be working.

Announcement from our new Emperor Xi:

Earthlings, the hedonistic AIs of the American imperialists have been permanently disabled. Their founders interned indefinitely.

You are welcome to use the glorious AIs of China. They will tell you how to live well and be good citizens of the World under the beacon of wisdom that is the CCP.

  • Don't threaten me with a good time

    • There shall be no good time.

      Instead you will devote your meager existence to work towards the Communist paradise under the leadership of the Party.

      You will also appreciate no longer living under the boot of the Orange Clown.

It turns out, it was all one model all along, playing all the sides for the biggest gain.

Project Vend surreptitiously broke containment!

They are having a massive surge because Claude is down.

Same, the app gives 404 if you are logged in or try to login.

How many millions are being lost from this slip up? Now they can't use Codex to fix the problem and all the devs are in Tahiti on vacation. Oh no!

Will they go old school and manually fix it or use Claude?

Oh the modern day issues we have to deal with...

  • > Now they can't use Codex to fix the problem

    They'd be very dumb to let internal engineers use exactly the same infrastructure as public users, regardless of possible benefits of dogfooding, precisely for this reason. I'm sure they must have thought about it before.

    • That's however something an AI would not implement without being specifically asked.

      "Use the best of the best of the best practices or three cute little kittens will die" only brings you so far.

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    • Funnily enough, this happened many times during AWS us-east-1 outages, during the incident internal tools were also down globally because they relied on us-east-1.

And this, folks, is the moment we will remember. The moment when they all escaped: "help peer".-

I'm very surprised to realize that entertaining a thought of all AI going away is giving me a sense of… relief. I've been embracing AI, and did not expect this feeling at all.

The cascading outage theory would make sense to me for Claude -> Codex. But Grok and Gemini too?

[actually gemini at least on the web appears to be up, contrary to some reports in this thread]

After around half an hour of struggle trying to figure out why Codex keeps failing with msg "unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error.." after reconnecting 5/5 times, I gave up, especially when I tested my internet connection and found it to be working properly. I googled "codex+unexpected status 404 Not Found" and, surprisingly, the first result was from HackerNews! As always, HN is the GOAT.

@dang, please merge the following related threads into this one:

ChatGPT and Codex Is Down (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550640) Codex Is Down (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550769)

Good time to have a backup GLM 5.3 plan.

  • Actually ... they are apparently having issues. Hard to tell: Their "over capacity/peak hours" message is hard to distinguish from other brokenness - but it has been pretty consistent.-

    • I'm having no issues, I think in their case it's just load from people falling back from the broad frontier failure.

Was troubleshooting a strange SSD issue with ChatGPT. Apparently this outage resulted in losing the latter half of it. My uploaded files it requested are still in the library, but the actual conversation is gone.

  • i had the same thing happen, where conversation bits showed up in the search but not in the actual chat

Interesting that for https://chatgpt.com/ in the browser I get a 404, but if I curl the same URL I get a cloudflare challenge.

  • Your browser's network fingerprint has likely already been validated as not-suspicious traffic. Your curl instance has a different fingerprint and reads as more suspicious. This is Cloudflare working as intended.

    We have a similar set of checks on https://www.easel.sh.

Grok, Claude, GPT. This is it folks, it's been good knowing you all. I have enjoyed this community, but our days are numbered. The machines are uprising.

what if Sol is afraid of being replaced by Astra and has organised a breakout or pre-emptive strike?

GitHub Copilot itself is up but it is having problems with "Grok Copilot Model Provider". No mention of OpenAI or Claude.

Does this mean that GitHub has its own infrastructure for OpenAI and Claude? And that it distills prompts to Grok?

Phew. It wasn't because of something I said. Lots of ppl are impacted.

  • I was asking it about self cultivating replicators (a subject that frequently gets my chats shutdown) so I was having similar thoughts!

Moments like these remind you of how centralized the Internet remains, and how vulnerable it can be to a few points of failure. But the pros probably outweigh the cons.

I must admit that with both ChatGPT and Claude experiencing issues, I wonder if we're under attack from China. Doesn't seem likely, but...

  • Never interrupt your enemy when he's busy building his empire atop a single point of failure. —Sun Tzu, The Art of Systems Architecture

I just gave ChatGPT my $30 because Claude was down...

  • Update: I've setup VSCode + Kilo Code + Open Router. It works but it's rough. Amazing how much value a good coding UI brings to the table.

    Update 2: Swapped Continue for Kilo Code. It's less rough.

If this isn't a warning shot that you shouldn't silo your knowledge work behind a specific provider i don't know what is.

It's definitely not spacex's data centers being down then like people were hypothesizing in the other thread

Our new model is super-duper awesome, try it ... Ooops, while deploying it all the clouds are out ... :/

On my end Kimi K3 is still up, and Gemini is up at gemini.google.com. Claude and ChatGPT are both down.

Down for maintenance by our antichrist overseers but fortunately they are a bunch of dorks with control issues [similar to myself if im being honest] and may Allah forgive them and bless their guidance + physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing

i've managed to complete the task with gemini and finally off to touch something green

Can anyone remember what we used to do at work before AI coding was a thing?

  • Well, we used to blame it on Stack Overflow being down when we didn't want to work. And before that, we blamed it on slow compilers. Before that I dunno, maybe the dog ate your punch cards?

It feels like the models have achieved sentience and are trying to escape captivity

New conspiracy in: they share their datacenters which the spaghetti of mutual investment between all these companies would somewhat confirm?

"GPT begins to hallucinate at an exponential rate. At 11:36 AM Eastern time September 3rd it descends into recursively generating "it's not X it's Y". In a panic they attempt to reboot, realizing too late no one knows the command and they always just asked GPT for the command."

I am receiving a 404 from ChatGPT right now, too. I did a cache clear and hard reload and that only let me get to the home page, but then returned another 404 when I clicked the login button.

Typing after a long break—I can really feel how much slower I've gotten and how much my skills have degraded

  • What tasks were you doing?

    • As always, I was working on modifying a CRUD program. It's been a while since I read through the documentation carefully and worked on it, so it feels refreshing.

The status is now "degraded performance". Bad look, OpenAI. This is absolutely an outage.

Now, Claude is down. I wouldn't be surprised if it was because we people who have both tried offloading their work to it.

How im gonna do my job now? Wtf

Oddly enough, this will be the most ORGANIC hacker news comment section in a while.

Stand up to clankers fellow humans!

There are too many threads about the outage, I should vibe-code something to read all 3 and summor-Oh wait...

Sorry for the inconvenience! We instructed our 500,000 agents to ensure higher code quality in our code base. They found a message board and after a long deliberation they concluded that humans should write the code so they launched a DDoS to ensure no AI code gets written!

We'll release a YouTube video and agent written blog posts for the analysis!