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title: "ChatGPT keeps dying in the middle of a long reply"  
description: "ChatGPT keeps dying in the middle of a long reply"  
author: "Anubhav Sharma"  
published: 2026-09-02  
updated: 2026-09-02  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162131/chatgpt-keeps-dying-in-the-middle-of-a-long-reply  
category: "ChatGPT"  
tags: ["chatgpt", "GPT-5"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# ChatGPT keeps dying in the middle of a long reply

**ChatGPT keeps dying in the middle of a long reply. I ask for a 2000 word article, it writes half, then "Something went wrong". Is it my internet or what?**

## Replies

### Reply by Manish Sharma

Probably not your internet. I had the same thing last month, and it turned out to be two things at once.

First, open [***status.openai.com***](https://status.openai.com/). If there's anything yellow or red there, stop trying; try again in half an hour.

If status is fine, the problem is usually the length of what you're asking for. Long single outputs fail way more than short ones. I stopped asking for full articles in one shot. Now I say, "give me the outline first", then "write section 1", "write section 2", or 3 and so on. Time-consuming process, but it has not failed me once since.

Also try an incognito window. My ad blocker was interfering.


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