OpenAI is experiencing a widespread outage affecting two programs, APIs and ChatGPT. The outage has been ongoing for a minimum of a half an hour as of publication date.
Replace: File uploads have been restored as of 8:55 PM
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ChatGPT API Jobs Caught Outage
The primary challenge is that batch API jobs get caught within the finalization state. There are twelve elements of APIs which are monitored for uptime and it’s the Batch half that’s experiencing “degraded” efficiency. The problem has been ongoing since 3:54 PM.
In accordance with OpenAI:
“Subset of Batch API jobs caught in finalizing state”
ChatGPT Uploads Outage
The opposite error pertains to ChatGPT file uploads are failing. That is described as a partial outage.
OpenAI’s official clarification:
“File uploads to ChatGPT conversations are failing for some customers, giving an error message indicating the file has expired.
…File uploads to ChatGPT conversations are failing for some customers, giving an error message indicating the file has expired.”
This challenge has been ongoing since 3:53 PM.
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