ChatGPT incident
Elevated errors for image generation
Resolved after 7 h 26 min.
- Started
- Ended
- Worst state
- Degraded
- On ChatGPT’s status page
- Source
- Components
- Image Generation, Images
Timeline
- ChatGPT status page · Reported Elevated errors for image generation
- ChatGPT status page · 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.
- ChatGPT status page · 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.
- ChatGPT status page · 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. "
- ChatGPT status page · Identified We have identified the issue affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. Some image-generation requests may continue to fail.
- ChatGPT status page · Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- ChatGPT status page · Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Cite this incident
Site Qwality, “Elevated errors for image generation,” Sep 8, 2026, https://siteqwality.com/is-chatgpt-down/incidents/chatgpt-202609081432/
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