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OpenAI outage affects ChatGPT and Codex with error 401

OpenAI outage affects ChatGPT and Codex with error 401

Hindustan Times1d
THE BRIEF
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OpenAI experienced an outage on Friday with users reporting that ChatGPT and Codex were not working properly and displaying an Unexpected status 401 error.

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Outage-tracking website Downdetector reported that issues began coming in around 6:55 p.m. EDT, with many users receiving an incorrect API key error message.

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OpenAI's status page acknowledged the Codex error and stated that the company had identified elevated errors and was working on implementing a mitigation.