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As if a million white collar workers suddenly cried out in terror at once, a great disturbance in the AI force forced down every major AI chatbot service \u2014 a brief moment of reprieve from our AI empire overlords.<\/p>\n
OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, Anthropic\u2019s Claude, Google\u2019s Gemini, and X\u2019s Grok mysteriously went down Thursday morning, and we still don\u2019t know what\u2019s behind it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the AI is down,\u201d as one X user put it buntly<\/a>.<\/p>\n OpenAI\u2019s status page<\/a> noted \u201celevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery,\u201d the company wrote.<\/p>\n While X\u2019s Grok shows widespread outages<\/a>, Anthropic\u2019s Claude status page<\/a> noted that the \u201conly affected models right now are Opus 4.8 and Opus 5.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe rest of the models have recovered to baseline error rate,\u201d Anthropic\u2019s website reads.<\/p>\n Spiking and falling reported incidents on Downdetector suggest outages affecting OpenAI\u2019s services have largely been resolved<\/a>. Other services, including Google and the popular video game \u201cFortnite,\u201d continue to experience issues.<\/p>\n Netizens were quick to joke about out the unusual outage affecting almost every major AI chatbot service, describing a momentary glimpse of lucidity for a society obsessed with a tech that\u2019s deteriorating our cognitive abilities.<\/p>\n \u201cFinally I can see the Sun!\u201d one account tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd for a brief moment, millions of people had to use their brains again,\u201d journalist and noted AI critic Paris Marx quipped in a Bluesky post<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you are renting your brain, what happens during global rent-a-brain outage?\u201d another user joked<\/a>.<\/p>\n