India, June 10 -- OpenAI's ChatGPT on Tuesday suffered an outage as the user reports indicating problems in using the software surged globally, with US and India being most affected.

Both countries reported the highest number of disruptions in the chatbot's functioning, PTI reported.

According to Down Detector, India had reported more than 800 cases of outages around 3 pm. Meanwhile, users in the United States and United Kingdom received complaints from more than 1000 users, who reported problems using ChatGPT.

The outages started around 12:30 pm IST and surged over the next three hours. While using ChatGPT, users reported getting messages like "A network error occurred. Please check your connection and try again. If this issue persist...