{"id":175738,"date":"2023-11-10T00:46:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T06:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/openai-blames-ddos-attack-for-ongoing-chatgpt-outage"},"modified":"2023-11-10T00:46:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T06:46:35","slug":"openai-blames-ddos-attack-for-ongoing-chatgpt-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/openai-blames-ddos-attack-for-ongoing-chatgpt-outage","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI blames DDoS attack for ongoing ChatGPT outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/openai-blames-ddos-attack-for-ongoing-chatgpt-outage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI has confirmed that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is behind \u201cperiodic outages\u201d affecting ChatGPT and its developer tools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/11\/6\/chatgpt-everything-to-know-about-the-ai-chatbot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ChatGPT<\/a>, OpenAI\u2019s AI-powered chatbot, has been experiencing sporadic outages for the past 24 hours. Users who attempted to access the service have been greeted with a message stating that \u201cChatGPT is at capacity right now,\u201d and others, including TechCrunch, have been unable to log into the service.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman initially blamed the issue on interest in the platform\u2019s new features, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/11\/06\/everything-announced-at-openais-first-developer-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unveiled at the company\u2019s first developer conference on Monday<\/a>, \u201cfar outpacing our expectations.\u201d OpenAI said the issue was fixed at approximately 1 p.m. PST on November 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has confirmed that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is behind \u201cperiodic outages\u201d affecting ChatGPT and its developer tools. ChatGPT, OpenAI\u2019s AI-powered chatbot, has been experiencing sporadic outages for the past 24 hours. Users who attempted to access the service have been greeted with a message stating that \u201cChatGPT is at capacity right now,\u201d and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}