OpenAI Reveals ChatGPT is Being Attacked by DDoS

AI organization behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, has acknowledged that distributed denial of service (DDoS) assaults are to blame for the sporadic disruptions that have plagued its main generative AI product.

As per the developer’s status page, ChatGPT and its API have been experiencing “periodic outages” since November 8 at approximately noon PST.

According to the most recent update published on November 8 at 19.49 PST, OpenAI said, “We are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack. We are continuing work to mitigate this.”

While the application seemed to have been operating normally, a user of the API reported seeing a “429 – Too Many Requests” error, which is consistent with OpenAI’s diagnosis of DDoS as the cause of the issue.

Hacktivists Claim Responsibility

Hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan took to Telegram, claiming responsibility of the attacks.

The group claimed to have targeted OpenAI specifically because of its support for Israel, in addition to its stated goal of going against “any American company.” The nation has recently been under heavy fire for bombing civilians in Palestine.

The partnership between OpenAI and the Israeli occupation state, as well as the CEO’s declaration that he is willing to

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