OpenAI confirmed on August 19 that registration and login services on ChatGPT.com went down, leaving users unable to access the world’s most popular AI chatbot. The company acknowledged the disruption on its official status page and said it was actively working to restore access. The outage hit both new signups and existing user logins, effectively locking out anyone who needed to authenticate. This marks the third login-related incident in less than a month, raising questions about the platform’s authentication infrastructure as demand scales. OpenAI has been relatively transparent about these incidents, logging them on a public status dashboard and publishing detailed uptime metrics.
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