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Fortune
Paolo Confino

‘ChatGPT is down’ is the new ‘dog ate my homework’—outages of the popular A.I. leave students and professionals alike scrambling

Phone screen with the ChatGPT logo. (Credit: NurPhoto)

The rise of ChatGPT since its launch in November of last year led to much hand-wringing over students using it to write essays and workers phoning it in while A.I. did the real work. July 2023 offers a look at just how useful some people already find the tool, and the answer seems to be…very. 

The popular chatbot has been experiencing outages over the past day or so, leaving users scrambling and saying they’re struggling to do their homework. 

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