OpenAI incident
Elevated errors with image generation in ChatGPT
OpenAI experienced a minor incident on July 7, 2026 affecting Image Generation, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jul 07, 2026, 11:29 AM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating elevated errors affecting image generation in ChatGPT. Some users may be unable to generate images. Affected components Image Generation (Degraded performance)
- identified Jul 07, 2026, 12:17 PM UTC
Status: Identified We have identified the issue and are implementing a mitigation. Some users may continue to experience errors with image generation in ChatGPT while we implement the mitigation. Affected components Image Generation (Degraded performance)
- monitoring Jul 07, 2026, 02:40 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have implemented a mitigation and are seeing error rates return to normal levels. We are monitoring the recovery, and some users may continue to experience errors with image generation in ChatGPT. Affected components Image Generation (Degraded performance)
- resolved Jul 07, 2026, 04:12 PM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Image Generation (Operational)