OpenAI outage — June 9, 2026

Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT conversations

OpenAI’s ChatGPT was disrupted on June 9, 2026.

Key facts

Timeline

1. 12:47Z

   Detected · Signal

   25 crowd signals for ChatGPT on OPENAI crossed the signal threshold.
2. 13:07Z

   Confirmed · Official

   An official OPENAI status-page notice corroborated the event the same cycle.
3. 10:19Z

   Resolved

   Signal volume fell back below the threshold; the event was closed.

What people reported

“ChatGPT is down for thousands globally: Here’s what issues users are facing ChatGPT is currently unavailable for many users worldwide. Thousands of reports ind”@newsarea.bsky.social · 22:28 UTC

“so not only did they use AI, they were too lazy to cover it up and it just appeared on their giant slide during their panel? (the paragraph is straight up AI o”bluesky_jetstream · 22:38 UTC

“OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs stumble together OpenAI’s status page reported elevated error rates across its APIs, ChatGPT, and Code”@newsarea.bsky.social · 22:58 UTC

“$5 says the Avatar people, instead of just saying "our bad using chatgpt we'll actually do our research" are just going to double down in a weird way like "well”@puffycurry.bsky.social · 23:09 UTC

“I'm proud to say I did not notice the ChatGPT outage, for what I hope are obvious reasons”bluesky_jetstream · 23:36 UTC

“"ChatGPT said" is 2020s "according to Wikipedia". 🙃 If you understand why your teacher marked you down for citing Wikipedia, you know why you shouldn't be rely”@jchmoe.bsky.social · 23:44 UTC

How this was detected

1 independent evidence class for chatgpt on OPENAI. 26 crowd reports across bluesky (single platform — not corroborating), z=-1.1σ vs the cell baseline. Official notice confirms it.