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OpenAI image generation incident resolved, monitoring ongoing

OpenAI reports elevated errors with image generation. Mitigation applied and recovery is being monitored. A previous incident affecting login, compliance API, and other services has been resolved.

Aug 5, 2026Views:0

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Reliability4

Migration0

Quality2

Compliance0

Image generation degraded performance may affect quality for users; no cost or migration impact. Previous incident resolved, no ongoing impact.

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Before

<![CDATA[Elevated error rates]]> | https://status.openai.com//incidents/01KYCGY017EG43XZS6GFVXA8VH | <![CDATA[<b>Status: Resolved</b><br/><br/>All impacted services have now fully recovered.<br/><br/><b>Affected components</b>
<li>Login (Operational)</li>
<li>Compliance API (Operational)</li>
<li>VS Code extension (Operational)</li>
<li>ChatGPT Work (Operational)</li>
<li>Moderations (Operational)</li>
<li>Login (Operational)</li>
<li>ChatGPT Atlas (Operational)</li>
<li>CLI (Operational)</li>
<li>Codex in ChatGPT Desktop (Operational)</li>
<li>Codex API (Operational)</li>
<li>Batch (Operational)</li>

After

<![CDATA[Elevated errors with image generation]]> | https://status.openai.com//incidents/01KZ96S5HEWX0CX26W2WFYFKE6 | <![CDATA[<b>Status: Monitoring</b><br/><br/>We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.<br/><br/><b>Affected components</b>
<li>Image Generation (Degraded performance)</li>

OpenAI image generation incident resolved, monitoring ongoing

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