Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude on Wednesday faced an outage, leading to users experiencing challenges in accessing the service, as reports of disruptions increased on social media.Anthropic's Claude chatbot encountered a major outage Wednesday, with user complaints spiking on Downdetector. (AFP)Downdetector, a platform that monitors online service outages by gathering user-submitted reports, indicated a significant rise in user complaints, suggesting extensive problems for Claude users. The outage seemed to affect various iterations of Anthropic's most recent Claude models.Claude down: Anthropic issues statementIn a recent update on its status page, Anthropic announced that it has pinpointed the source of the problem and is actively working to restore service.“We have identified the cause of elevated errors on requests to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5 and are working on a fix. We will provide an update as soon as possible,” the firm stated.Additionally, the company mentioned that they are persistently working on a resolution for this issue.Anthropic has not provided a timeline for when the issue will be resolved nor has it revealed the reason behind the heightened error rates.While attempting to inquire with Claude regarding the status, the error message read: "This response didn’t load."