ChatGPT, OpenAI’s key AI productivity platform, was unavailable for some users for over four hours on Tuesday, 6/4. This included the web and mobile apps. It was active again for some time and then it shut down again. ChatGPT is used to some minor issues with how it produces images or text, but this was the first large-scale outage in a while.
It was a major outage of the use of all plans of ChatGPT, the company informed the users on Tuesday (June 4), as reported. It covered all services related to ChatGPT. The impact excluded the platform. openai. com or the API. This incident started on June 4th at 2:15p GMT and was resolved on June 4th at 5:01p GMT.
ChatGPT back-to-back outage issue
The employees stated their opinion in the letter called “A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence”, noting that the major AI companies are not being regulated effectively due to their desire to avoid proper scrutiny as it would negatively impact their financial performance.
The letter also states that while orthodox whistleblower protections concern themselves with illegality, most of the dangers posed by AI technologies remain undefined. This gap puts employees among the few entities that can bring these companies to book.
In other parts of AI, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is expected to warn financial institutions of risks arising from the use of the technology. However it is already applied in the financial services field for forecasting, detecting fraud, customer service, and other purposes, the fast development of AI has threats and opportunities as Yellen said in her speech at the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s 2024 Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Financial Stability.