OpenAI ChatGPT suffers a DDoS attack with periodic interruptions

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen South China Wu Yanzu, soft media new friend 1933769, west window old things, soft media user 1520111 clue delivery! CTOnews.com November 9 news, Beijing time on the evening of November 8, artificial intelligence company OpenAI chat robot service ChatGPT suddenly appeared a major failure, resulting in the application can not be used.

ChatGPT and its API were suddenly interrupted in service around 9 a.m. EDT on November 8, and users were told that "ChatGPT is currently fully loaded," with the status page calling the issue a "critical outage." Subsequently, OpenAI confirmed that repair measures had been implemented and service began to gradually resume.

OpenAI said in its latest system update: "We are dealing with periodic outages caused by unusual traffic patterns that occur due to DDoS attacks. We are continuing our efforts to alleviate this problem. "

CTOnews.com noted that OpenAI CEO Sam Ultraman also issued a public apology, saying that the service was unstable due to the heavy load caused by the use of the new features released this week.

The attack comes after OpenAI held its inaugural developer conference DevDay on Tuesday, where the company unveiled a new AI product, GPTs, that allows developers and companies to customize ChatGPT to suit their specific needs and services. The company also laid out a preview of its GPT-4 Turbo model, with a 128k context window, which OpenAI says will enable it to accept the equivalent of 300 pages of single text prompts. It will also be faster than current GPT-4 chatbots, while reducing operating costs to half.

Currently, ChatGPT has more than 100 million weekly active users. OpenAI says more than 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies are using its platform, up from 80 percent in August, across industries such as financial services, legal apps and education.