ChatGPT suffered another major failure two weeks later

On June 17th at 2:00 PM EST (June 18th at 2:00 AM Beijing Time), users reported a malfunction with OpenAI's ChatGPT on DownDetector. OpenAI quickly confirmed the issue with ChatGPT and updated their status bar at 2:39 PM, stating that they were investigating the high failure rate of ChatGPT. According to reports, mobile and web versions of ChatGPT in the US and the UK were intermittently unable to respond to user queries, either for several minutes or not at all, and displayed various errors (answers). As of 5:00 PM, OpenAI updated their status bar to indicate that all systems were operational, and DownDetector showed a decrease in error reports for OpenAI. ChatGPT 3.5 and ChatGPT 4o are able to generate answers that include images.