Many users noted in March 2023 that Chat GPT is not working for them as an error seems to appear, but is there a potential fix for this?
OpenAI’s Chat GPT has changed the way people ever since it was launched on November 30, 2022. The app managed to reach over a million people in a span of one week.
Since then, people have used it to answer some of their burning questions while others have even tested it to see if it solves their University assignments. However, it looks like it is facing some issues in 2023.
Users note Chat GPT is not working in 2023
On March 20, 2023, some users noted that the website for Chat GPT was not working for them. It did not take long for them to express their frustration on Twitter.
One user wrote: “When #chatgpt is not working it’s like internet is dead, it’s so fast for such a compatibility.”
Another added: “#ChatGPT #ChatGPTPlus Is #ChatGPTPLus down too? I don’t have a personalized link and cannot receive one now because ChatGPT is not working for me. Last I checked was like 7 hours ago.”
“unable to access my paid subscription to ChatGPT. I filled in my email at the prompt to get my personalized link in email even that is broken and not working. You guys need to have a better system in place for paid user login vs un-paid user login. What I am paying 20?” wrote another frustrated user.
“Chatgpt is not working. I’m helpless,” said one more. “I pay for ChatGPT plus and it is not working right now. Wow,” said one more.
Potential fixes to try
While OpenAI has not revealed what the issue is, there are a couple of potential fixes that you could try.
- Verify your email and phone number: To use Chat GPT properly, you need to verify your number and email id. Make sure you have done this.
- Log out of your account: You could try the old trick in the book, that is, logging out of your account and logging in again. Sometimes, it is just what you need to do for the website to start functioning normally.
- Clear your cache: Clearing out your cache and search history on your laptop or computer can help.
This has happened before
This is not the first time that users are experiencing Chat GPT being down as the same was witnessed by many in December 2022.
At that time, the chatbot was fairly new. Now, with over three months of helping users, some people are frustrated that it is not working properly.
Regardless, it looks like users will just have to wait for the website to be back up if the above mentioned fixes do not work.
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