ChatGPT is experiencing a major outage, with users worldwide unable to log in or load conversations.

The outage began at about 5am ET on Saturday (10am GMT).

An OpenAI status page said that the AI tool is currently “experiencing issues”.

“We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery,” it said.

The outage is also affecting APIs and OpenAI’s coding platform, Codex.

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