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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Technology
David Unyime Nkanta

Will ChatGPT Fail Us More Often? The Future of AI Reliability and User Trust

A logo of OpenAI, ChatGPT's developer. (Credit: Unsplash)

OpenAI's conversational AI, ChatGPT, recently stumbled again, as users across the globe experienced a partial outage on 10 June 2025. Warnings of elevated error rates, sluggish responses, and service disruption triggered concerns over how dependable AI tools truly are in a world increasingly reliant on them.

According to OpenAI's status page, the disruptions began at approximately 3 am ET (8 am in the UK), with users scrolling through unresponsive prompts and error messages such as 'something went wrong.' Outage‑tracker DownDetector recorded a sharp surge in issue reports, leaping from dozens to throttle‑breaking hundreds per minute.

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