India, July 16 -- Thousands of users across the United States found ChatGPT unresponsive, slow, or just plain broken, according to outage tracker DownDetector.

HindustanTimes.com earlier reported over 3,400 reports flooded in from Americans struggling with everything from "failing to upload chat history" to painfully slow load times.

Notably, 82% of global users reported problems, with some seeing the dreaded message: "Unable to load projects."

"We're currently experiencing issues. Elevated Error Rates on ChatGPT record mode, Sora and Codex. We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services," OpenAI quickly acknowledged the mess on its status page.

The company reassured users they were "working o...