Incident report · read from OpenAI's status page
OpenAI incident: Elevated errors for image generation
Resolved after 7 h 26 m (8 Sep 2026, 14:32–21:59 UTC), impact minor, affecting Images and Image Generation.
Timeline
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- identified
We have identified the issue affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. Some image-generation requests may continue to fail.
- monitoring
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Affected components
- APIs · Images: degraded for 7 h 26 m
- ChatGPT · Image Generation: degraded for 7 h 26 m
What the crowd did
- 624 clicks, 34 zombies at their worst, 327 breaches, over 7 h 28 m — the siege in full
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Source
OpenAI's own report of this incident, on OpenAI's status page. This page is a record of OpenAI's own report; where the two disagree, theirs is right.
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