OpenAI's popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT, has been hit by a fresh service disruption, leaving users in the US, India and other regions unable to generate AI images. Hundreds of users flagged the problem on outage tracker Downdetector, reporting errors while creating images and, in some cases, accessing ChatGPT.
The outage prompted a wave of complaints on social media, where users questioned whether the issue was widespread.
One X user wrote, "ChatGPT showing errors generating images. does this mean a reset?"
Another user posted, "ChatGPT's image generation is throwing errors left and right, but is everyone else getting that too...? Or is it just me...?"
OpenAI apologises for ChatGPT image generation outage
Responding to the complaints, OpenAI acknowledged the issue in a post on X (formerly Twitter) and apologised to users. "We know that a lot of you are having issues generating images in ChatGPT, and we're working fast to fix it. Sorry about that," the company said.
According to OpenAI's status page, the company has identified the root cause of the disruption and is implementing a mitigation.
