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ChatGPT was down for about 45 minutes.
OpenAI, on its status website, confirmed that there were “elevated errors” affecting ChatGPT. During the outage, when I tried to access ChatGPT on the web, all that loaded was an error message. The company confirmed impacted services had recovered at 8:39PM ET.

TL;DR
- ChatGPT was down for about 45 minutes.
- OpenAI confirmed "elevated errors" were affecting ChatGPT.
- Users encountered error messages when trying to access ChatGPT.
- The impacted services were confirmed to have recovered at 8:39 PM ET.