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ChatGPT’s outage and the start of September dominate the week’s best memes

From El Universal · () Spanish

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  • Memes this week focused on September, including back-to-school shopping, Mexican food, national holidays and memories of two earthquakes on the same day.
  • A global outage affecting ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok in more than 70 countries quickly became another source of online jokes.
  • DownDetector recorded service interruptions around 11 a.m., with at least 39,000 people in the United States reporting problems, mainly with ChatGPT.

September gave meme creators plenty to work with this week: school-supply shopping, Mexican food, national celebrations and the unsettling memory of two earthquakes occurring on the same day.

Then, two days after September 3, the major artificial-intelligence platforms went down around the world. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all experienced interruptions, turning a technical failure into fresh material for social media.

DownDetector recorded disruptions in more than 70 countries. The problems began around 11 a.m., and at least 39,000 people in the United States reported technical difficulties, particularly with ChatGPT.

The memes, predictably, appeared soon afterward.

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