OpenAI is experiencing a widespread outage affecting two systems, APIs and ChatGPT. The outage has been ongoing for at least a half an hour as of publication date.
ChatGPT API Jobs Stuck Outage
The first issue is that batch API jobs get stuck in the finalization state. There are twelve components of APIs that are monitored for uptime and it’s the Batch part that’s experiencing “degraded” performance. The issue has been ongoing since 3:54 PM.
According to OpenAI:
“Subset of Batch API jobs stuck in finalizing state”
ChatGPT Uploads Outage
The other error pertains to ChatGPT file uploads are failing. This is described as a partial outage.
OpenAI’s official explanation:
“File uploads to ChatGPT conversations are failing for some users, giving an error message indicating the file has expired.
…File uploads to ChatGPT conversations are failing for some users, giving an error message indicating the file has expired.”
This issue has been ongoing since 3:53 PM.
Screenshot of OpenAI Uploads Outage
