ChatGPT Outage: Hmm...something seems to have gone wrong. Maybe try me again in a little bit.


Now that is a lot of air around Chat GPT, there is a huge demand for it, and people across the globe trying to access it. This is causing overwhelming requests to the ChatGPT servers and they need scaling up to keep up with the demand. For this reason, you may see these errors when trying to write a question to the chat.

Hmm...something seems to have gone wrong. Maybe try me again in a little bit.

ChatGPT Error Hmm...something seems to have gone wrong. Maybe try me again in a little bit.

Mostly when you refresh the page you would see a note.

We're experiencing exceptionally high demand. Please hang tight as we work on scaling our systems.

ChatGPT - We're experiencing exceptionally high demand. Please hang tight as we work on scaling our systems.

Why these errors?

There could be servel reasons

  • The servers are down.
  • Servers having heavy load and not able to keep up with every request.
  • Servers are scaling up to keep up with demand.
  • Some maintannce acivitiy going on.

What solutions we have?

  • Wait for a while and you should be able to use it again.
  • Refresh the page and try again.
  • Check for any outages reported on the Open AI status page: https://status.openai.com/.
Outage as seen today:
Outage on all models

Identified - We have identified the root cause and are working to recover service. 
Feb 20, 2023 - 23:59 PST

Investigating - We are currently investigating an outage affecting all models, 
including ChatGPT and Playground, beginning around 11:05 pm Pacific. 
Feb 20, 2023 - 23:40 PST
ChatGPT Outage page

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