ChatGPT down for you yesterday? OpenAI says DDoS attack was to blame

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ChatGPT has become my go-to artificial intelligence tool, taking the spot of Google for searches and Siri for questions on my iPhone. Imagine my surprise yesterday when I went to ask for a better way to describe something and was met with an outage.

OpenAI reported periodic outages yesterday in ChatGPT and the API, later saying that these were due to "an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack." 

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