On June 17, 2026, at 1:33 p.m. ET, OpenAI was dealing with issues affecting ChatGPT, according to Downdetector. The problems started shortly after 9 a.m. EST, and by 1 p.m. there were close to 1,000 reports of issues. More than 85 percent of the issues were with ChatGPT, while problems with the website and app were not a huge issue. There is no timetable for this to be fixed.