Unexpected ChatGPT Outage Sends Shockwaves Through APIs and File Uploads—What You Need to Know Now

Ever get that sinking feeling when the tools you rely on suddenly hit the pause button—no warning, no heads-up, just… silence? That’s exactly where OpenAI finds itself right now, grappling with a widespread outage that’s thrown a wrench in both its API batch jobs and ChatGPT file uploads. Picture this: batch jobs stuck in a limbo called the “finalizing state” while users trying to upload files to their conversations are greeted with an “expired” error message. It’s like waiting for a loading wheel that never stops spinning—frustrating, isn’t it? Even giants have their off days, and this hiccup raises the question: how dependent have we become on these AI tools in our digital hustle? If you’ve been impacted or just curious about what’s happening behind the scenes, you’ll want to dive deeper into the details. LEARN MORE

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.