Updated 5:59 p.m. Eastern on September 8, 2026
OpenAI reports that the incident affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API is resolved. All impacted services have fully recovered as of the final update.
What is affected
The incident affected image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API, with some requests failing during the event.
Official update timeline
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.
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.
> 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.
We have identified the issue affecting image generation in ChatGPT and the Images API. Some image-generation requests may continue to fail.
We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
