An OpenAI representative responded to CNET via email, directing us to its status page, which originally stated that OpenAI is experiencing "elevated errors and latency" and that it has identified the root cause and is working to mitigate the underlying issue.

ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is an artificial intelligence chatbot that can engage in human-like conversations and generate various types of content, including code, articles, and images. Some of ChatGPT's key features and capabilities include text gneeration, conversational AI, answering questions, summarization and brainstorming.

OpenAI continues to track issues with ChatGPT as users reported outages throughout Tuesday morning. Downdector, the online service that monitors issues with various websites and services such as X, TikTok and other systems, began to show an upswell of outages of the chatbot tool beginning at about 2 a.m. Tuesday.