India, Oct. 6 -- OpenAI's ChatGPT, one of the most widely used AI chatbots, faced a sudden service disruption on Monday, leaving many users unable to access the platform or experiencing unusually long delays in responses. The outage quickly caught attention online, as frustrated users turned to social media platforms to vent, joke and share memes about the downtime.

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Although the exact cause of the issue remains unclear, there has been no official comment from OpenAI regarding the disruption at the time of writing. The silence did little to calm users, who flooded X (formerly Twitter) with reactions ranging from anger to humour....