OpenAI, the creator of the AI chatbot ChatGPT, has now blamed their recent intermittent outages on a potential cyberattack. Initially OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the outages were due to an unexpected interest in the platform’s new features. However, the company is now saying that the outages are a result of “an abnormal traffic pattern” that bears the signs of a DDoS attack.

Users who tried to access the chatbot were greeted with a message telling them “ChatGPT is at capacity right now.” On its status page, the company said it was seeing “errors impacting all services.” Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page