Elevated errors for image generation

Resolved Minor impact

On September 8, 2026 at 14:32 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting Image Generation with a minor impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 7h 26m and the incident has been fully resolved. IsChatGPTDown.chat mirrors this incident from OpenAI's official record; see the official link below for authoritative details.

Incident Facts

All facts below are taken from OpenAI's official incident record. Fields OpenAI did not publish are shown as “Not provided.”

Started
Resolved
Duration
7h 26m
Affected service
Image Generation
Severity
Minor
Current state
Resolved

Timeline

Official update history from OpenAI's status page.

  1. Investigating We’re investigating elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. Some requests may fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more.
  2. Investigating We’re continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. We’ve made changes aimed at reducing failures and are assessing their effect. Some requests may still fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more.
  3. Investigating > We’re continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. We saw an increase in failed Images API requests after our last update. We’re applying mitigations and assessing their effect. Some image requests may still fail. We’ll share another update as we learn more.
  4. Identified We have identified the issue affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. Some image-generation requests may continue to fail.
  5. Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
  6. Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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