{"id":2637,"date":"2025-06-11T18:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/chatgpt-down-outage-freakout\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T18:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:31:48","slug":"chatgpt-down-outage-freakout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/chatgpt-down-outage-freakout\/","title":{"rendered":"People Pretty Much Lost Their Minds When ChatGPT Went Down"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Like all websites, ChatGPT is fallible \u2014 and when it went down this week, people lost their godforsaken minds.<\/p>\n

According to OpenAI’s status page<\/a>, the company has experienced major issues this week, leading to breathless coverage from sites like\u00a0TechRadar<\/em><\/a> and The Independent<\/a><\/em> \u2014 and, unsurprisingly, some massive freakouts on social media.<\/p>\n

“F*ck I can’t code without ChatGPT,” someone on the r\/ChatGPT subreddit<\/a> raged. “Ok I can but I am too dependent on ChatGPT to do the grunt work lol.”<\/p>\n

In that same thread, one purported teacher got incredibly real about their students’ over-reliance on the chatbot \u2014 and their own, too.<\/p>\n

“I’m a professor and I have fifty students in my class,” the user shared<\/a>. “There was an essay due this morning and I received… nine of them! Guess that means that eighty percent of my students are too dependent on GPT to write their own essay. Kind of a fascinating natural experiment.”<\/p>\n

“On the other hand,” the teacher continued, “I am really struggling to grade these nine essays on my own.”<\/p>\n

Things were a bit less deep on X, where jokes and GIFs abounded.<\/p>\n

“ChatGPT<\/span> is <\/span>down<\/span>\u2026.. Which means I actually have to type out my own emails at work,” an apparent NFT enthusiast tweeted<\/a>. “Send prayers.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“ChatGPT<\/span> is <\/span>down,” another user posted<\/a>, alongside a gif of a young man having a meltdown.<\/span> “How will I answer if someone asks me my name[?]”<\/span><\/p>\n

“I hope <\/span>ChatGPT<\/span> stays <\/span>down<\/span> forever,” another person wrote<\/a>. “Nothing of human value would be lost.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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society if ChatGPT is shut down forever pic.twitter.com\/bfiNUUHA4V<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 the Beverly of Cheverly (@NickoGallo) June 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n