User reports indicate they are experiencing lag issues, timeouts and the app crashing. (Image: Getty Images)

Artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT is experiencing a global outage.

User reports indicate they are experiencing lag issues, timeouts and the app crashing. OpenAI has confirmed they are "experiencing issues" and "working on implementing a mitigation."

The problem appears widespread. OpenAI has confirmed it is experiencing issues this evening.

ChatGPT users have been reporting problems with the artificial intelligence platform.

We asked ChatGPT if it was down and this is what it told us...

The official OpenAI Status page indicates that their systems, including ChatGPT, are currently fully operational.

However, third-party status trackers sometimes show user-submit

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