OpenAI is grappling with \u201cabnormal traffic\u201d that suggests hackers are trying to swamp its services, revealing for the first time the potential cause of outages that\u2019ve plagued ChatGPT this week.<\/p>\n
The Microsoft Corp.-backed startup, which helped galvanise the development of generative AI around the world, said<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0it spotted signs of a Distributed Denial of Service attack, where external perpetrators try to overload a platform by repeatedly pinging it.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack. We are continuing work to mitigate this,\u201d the startup said in its latest system update.<\/p>\n Company representatives didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment after normal hours.<\/p>\n OpenAI\u2019s latest post follows what it called a \u201cmajor outage\u201d across its best-known chatbot as well as tools that developers use to build on its AI.<\/p>\n The company, however ,said it had fixed the issue, which triggered unusually high error rates across its software and AI platform.<\/p>\n OpenAI, which held its first-ever developer conference on Monday, has\u00a0introduced<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0a preview version of GPT-4 Turbo, a more powerful and speedier version of its most recent large language model, the technology that underpins ChatGPT.<\/p>\n The chatbot was released to the public a year ago this month, kicking off a global frenzy around all things AI.<\/p>\n Roughly 100 million people now use ChatGPT each week, the company said at the conference, and more than 90% of Fortune 500 businesses are building tools on OpenAI\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n But the ChatGPT maker is also confronting rival products from well-funded AI startups, tech giants and, most recently, Elon Musk, an early OpenAI backer.<\/p>\n ChatGPT creator OpenAI said\u00a0it spotted signs of a Distributed Denial of Service attack, where external perpetrators try to overload a platform by repeatedly pinging it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":500941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[35793,83065,72252,19562,84925,45266],"class_list":["post-514401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-chatgpt","tag-cyberattacks","tag-distributed-denial-of-service-ddos","tag-gpt-4","tag-openai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514403,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514401\/revisions\/514403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Crazy scam video fakes South African news presenter and Elon Musk\u2019s faces and voices<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"