OpenAI appears to be experiencing an outage, with users reporting that ChatGPT and Codex are not working properly and displaying an “Unexpected status 401” error.
Reports began coming in around 6:55 p.m, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector. One user reported, “It looks like ChatGPT and Codex are down. I’ve updated it.
I saw a lot of people experiencing this. I’m getting an API error. Several users also took to social media to report problems accessing ChatGPT and Codex. One user wrote, “I’m having the same issue; I just checked X to see if it was just me or if ChatGPT was down. There are other people getting that error (API key or something). It seems the problem isn’t just with Astra; I’m getting the same error too… I’m using it in the browser. Another added, “ChatGpt is down. I am getting an error saying incorrect API key provided. I have never had this error before it literally just happened a few minutes ago. I’ve reset it. This is definitely something wrong on their end.”
Users reported issues with both ChatGPT and Codex, with many saying they received an “Unexpected status 401: Incorrect API key” error. EDT on Friday.
