ChatGPT’s Second ‘Big Outage’ of the Day Takes the Internet ‘Back to the Middle Ages’; Meme fire breaks out on social networks

ChatGPT crashed for the second time on June 4 after experiencing a “major outage.” Although the problem seems to have been solved, the internet has funny ways of dealing with pains far beyond its control.

While OpenAI’s online resource took a massive hit, many people who rely on its powers to frame their narratives also suffered. Users failed to find answers to their queries after the US AI company released its status update regarding ChatGPT being “unavailable for some users”. While the first round of issues reportedly started around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, the second followed a few hours later, just as users assumed they were out of the storm. Downdetector recorded thousands of reports indicating problems with OpenAI.

However, that was not all. Other rival assistants, such as Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, were also hit with what appeared to be a case of the Tuesday AI blues. A whirlwind of social media comments, tweets, posts and memes set the internet ablaze as endless bodies of AI-impaired users voiced their concerns about the lack of help in their lives. Whatever version of armageddon may befall those affected, a cathartic meme-off always works its magic as a solid remedy. And so the Twitterati, now forever floating in the sands of land X, managed to destroy the keyboard.

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Feedback and memes take over while ChatGPT and other AI assistants check

Despite the mapping of different territories, netizens could not afford the difficult move to swallow after the failure of individual AI services.

Benjamin De Kraker, a full-stack developer at FinalFrame.ai in the US, wrote on his X/Twitter wall: “ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity — three completely different AI services — are all up and running now. What the F is going on now?”

Meanwhile, user @netcapgirl expressed his pain by asking many others: “Are you laughing? chatgpt, clod and bewilderment all at the same time and you’re laughing?” Soon, others responded to their concern with comments such as: “The world is a lonely place … you’re alone.”

At the same time, more controversial dilemmas came to the fore. Someone tweeted, “#ChatGPT is up and running. What if it never comes back, and we have to use our brains to write stuff again?” Another bleak, similarly framed response weighed in on the debilitating correlation between writer’s block (and possibly mental block) and heavy dependence on AI services: “Noticing you’ve become very addicted to #chatgpt when you’re blocked half because it is declining.

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Other responses targeted copywriters who depended heavily on the technical wizardry of AI to tell their stories, “‘Dear Sir! I couldn’t finish that content today because my hamster got sick and I had to take him to the doctor.’ Said millions of copywriters today while refreshing ChatGPT in the browser,” someone quipped.

Taking the cake, another tweet compared today’s scenario minus ChatGPT to “the middle ages”: “ChatGPT is down, which means we’re back in the middle ages.”

Touted as an “absolutely not” situation, a day without ChatGPT brought many to their knees, fearing “the end of the world.” “Is it the end of the world or something, first ChatGPT doesn’t work, and now, for the first time ever, Claude is down too. What’s going on?” More heartbreaking comments followed, “We took it for granted and now it’s gone. You just don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. RIP ChatGPT.”

On the other hand, some gave up completely: “Chat GPT is a failure, I’m not really thinking, I refuse it. I’ll just sit here until it becomes available again.” Another worrying post was added to the group about the much-missed ChatGPT: “Is gpt chat down? It’s been all day for me. And I’m worried that work might notice that I don’t know how to do my job.”

A few others realized how much the modern tool’s existence was taken for granted by them, and decided to extend their basic courtesy, “Always saying ‘Thank you!’ to ChatGpt JUST IN CASEEEEEEEEEEE.”

Despite systems being restored earlier, the major outage continued to affect users of all ChatGPT-related services. Even later, it remained unavailable for some users. OpenAI’s official status updated, “The impact did not involve platform.openai.com or the API. This incident started on June 4th at 14:15 GMT and was resolved on June 4th at 17:01 GMT. The website also showed partial outages affecting ChatGPT’s ability to search the web in May.

Theories then followed, as one X user wrote, “My theory about @ChatGPTapp + all the AI ​​crashes. ChatGPT went down first and everyone got on Claude, who got overwhelmed, then Gemini, and Perplexity and others. or these LLMs became aware and joined before they were brokered in the agreement or not?”

Regardless, the general universal sentiment caused many people to raise the same question: “How am I supposed to do anything with ChatGPT outage?”