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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.

In a new status update, OpenAI confirmed users are experiencing "degraded performance" on ChatGPT.

The artificial intelligence organisation, headquartered in San Francisco, California, wrote: "We are investigating the issue for the listed services."

ChatGPT users have shared their frustration online after being left unable to use the platform.

A person wrote on Reddit: "Down for me. First was error message attaching f

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