Is ChatGPT down for you? Here's what's going on 46%

By Ryan McNeal19%

7/23/2026, 1:37:51 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Hindsight Bias, and Overconfidence Bias, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 24.2% saturation with 36 hits. Analysis detected 195 faulty-reasoning hits from 149 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 48.1% and a BS Rank of 46% (11,876 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 54.30% of the article peer group.

Is ChatGPT down for you? 
Here's what's going on 
You're not the only one running into problems with ChatGPT. 
Is ChatGPT running slowly or giving you errors today? 
Don’t worry, there’s a reason why the service is acting up. 
OpenAI is currently experiencing an outage. 
According to the OpenAI status page, users have been experiencing an elevated rate of errors. 
The issues not only apply to ChatGPT, but also Codex and OpenAI’s APIs. 
It appears that the problem has been going on for a few hours now. 
The good news is that the company says that it has applied mitigation fixes. 
The company is now monitoring the status of its services. 
So any issues you’re running into will likely clear up soon. 
We’ll keep an eye on the situation. 
This article will be updated when the service is back online. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 3.3%Android Authority: 4.4%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.6%Android Authority: 2.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 6.7%Ryan McNeal: 3.4%Android Authority: 3.7%Availability Heuristic6.7%This article: 8.7%Ryan McNeal: 1.8%Android Authority: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic8.7%This article: 9.4%Ryan McNeal: 1.0%Android Authority: 0.6%Hindsight Bias9.4%This article: 9.4%Ryan McNeal: 1.8%Android Authority: 3.3%Overconfidence Bias9.4%This article: 5.4%Ryan McNeal: 4.5%Android Authority: 5.6%Framing Effect5.4%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 1.5%Android Authority: 1.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.4%Android Authority: 1.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.4%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 24.2%Ryan McNeal: 6.7%Android Authority: 7.0%Optimism Bias24.2%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.9%Android Authority: 1.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.9%Android Authority: 6.3%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.1%Android Authority: 1.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 6.7%Ryan McNeal: 0.4%Android Authority: 0.6%In-Group Bias6.7%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 6.7%Ryan McNeal: 0.8%Android Authority: 4.6%Halo Effect6.7%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 7.4%Ryan McNeal: 1.6%Android Authority: 2.2%Recency Bias7.4%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.2%Android Authority: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.3%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 14.1%Ryan McNeal: 2.8%Android Authority: 2.8%Appeal to Authority14.1%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.5%Android Authority: 2.0%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.2%Android Authority: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 3.2%Android Authority: 8.7%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 6.7%Ryan McNeal: 0.6%Android Authority: 0.9%Bandwagon6.7%This article: 7.4%Ryan McNeal: 1.0%Android Authority: 3.1%Appeal to Emotion7.4%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.3%Android Authority: 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 1.0%Android Authority: 1.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 9.4%Ryan McNeal: 0.1%Android Authority: 0.4%Burden of Proof9.4%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.2%Android Authority: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 8.7%Ryan McNeal: 0.4%Android Authority: 0.2%Composition/Division8.7%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 1.7%Android Authority: 6.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 1.7%Android Authority: 3.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.2%Android Authority: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.3%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 5.4%Android Authority: 2.1%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.4%Android Authority: 0.2%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 2.4%Android Authority: 12.4%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.5%Android Authority: 2.5%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 6.9%Android Authority: 7.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

149 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers14%attributed speech128writer words
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OpenAI status page

100%flagged-word coverage
15 attributed words71% of attributed speech88% writer coverage

No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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