New Delhi, Dec. 3 -- OpenAI's ChatGPT experienced some downtime on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, with reports of issues spiking on outage tracking Downdetector.

Users reported intermittent outages, with some saying that the chatbot was working and others reporting issues.

While the entire service seemed to be working, several users globally reported problems like lag, timeouts or crashes rather than normal functioning.

While users reported issues with the popular chatbot, OpenAI reported "degraded performance" on ChatGPT, specifically on its Conversations service.

Overall, the downgraded performance issue seemed to be limited just to ChatGPT's Conversation service, with all other services, such as Deep Research, Imag...