India, June 10 -- OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT has been facing a global outage for more than five hours, with users on social media sharing pictures of error messages and waiting for the issue to be resolved.

However, OpenAI, while acknowledging the complaints, has not provided a timeline for the resolution of the issues. Thousands of users, especially in India and the US, have been affected by the outage. As of 5 pm, more than 600 users in India were still facing problems using ChatGPT, according to Down Detector.

Of these, 88 per cent problems pertained to the core functionality of the AI chatbot, 8 per cent faced issues on the app and 4 per cent with the API. While the number of complaints has seen a slight decrease, hundreds of users ar...