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Why does this say ChatGPT is up but it isn't working for me?

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Operational

All Systems Operational

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User reports

No outage reports from users in the last 24 hours.

Recent incidents

Elevated errors from GPT-5.6 and GPT-5.6 Instant on paid plans
Affected components · 6h ago
Elevated errors affecting Work Mode in ChatGPT
Affected components · 11h ago
Degraded Performance affecting Agents API
Resolved · 14h ago
Elevated error rates for Codex and ChatGPT Work
Resolved · 1d ago
Elevated errors for ChatGPT users in Europe
Affected components · 2d ago
Codex GitHub Review and Pull Request Failures
Affected components · 2d ago

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