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If you’ve recently tried to access Chat GPT, OpenAI’s trending chatbot, you might have noticed it is down.
We feel your pain. Many people are trying to access the Chat GPT website right now but getting an error message ‘Chat GPT is at capacity right now‘. Alternatively, you might be able to log in, but are then faced with the ‘unable to load history’ message and find it impossible to enter any commands.
Because of the hype surrounding the chatbot, there are loads of people trying to access the service. This completely overloads the servers, hence the error message ‘Chat GPT is at capacity right now’. Prospective users are then prevented from accessing the chatbot.
When this happens, all you can do is wait for less people to try using the service. Given its current popularity, this might be difficult. Hopefully, as time progresses, the developers behind the chat bot will find ways to combat this, and make it easier to access the service.
Why is Chat GPT not working?
As the Chat GPT software is still being developed, there is a relatively low limit to the server capacity. This means that the web page home to the chatbot is unable to handle the large number of people trying to access the service. Hence, the website effectively shuts down, preventing any more users from accessing the Chat GPT service.
You can wait a while for your turn – around 15 to 30 minutes usually. However, if there are still a lot of people trying to access the chatbot, this could still be difficult. You could also try refreshing the page, clearing your browser cache, using a VPN or Incognito mode, or logging in to your account again if possible.
Subscribing to Chat GPT Professional might help with this problem, when it becomes available.
Final Thoughts
Chat GPT is experiencing very high traffic now, and it’s overloading the services. This means limits are being placed on the amount of users at one time. So if you’re trying to access the Chat GPT server, there’s a good chance you won’t get in.
Hopefully the hardworking software developers at OpenAI will fix this soon!