OpenAI says ChatGPT has been experiencing a major outage for several hours, starting at around 12:21am PDT; ChatGPT went down for over five hours on May 23 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says ChatGPT has been experiencing a major outage for several hours, starting at around 12:21am PDT; ChatGPT went down for over five hours on May 23  —  OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT has been down for several users across the globe for the last few hours.  Many users have posted about the issue on X and Threads.