ChatGPT is Down for Images: Error When Generating Images
If you receive an error when attempting to generate images with ChatGPT today, you are not alone, as OpenAI has confirmed there is a partial outage.

"Image generation unavailable in ChatGPT," says OpenAI's status page. "We are still implementing the mitigation."
In the meantime, ChatGPT will say "I wasn't able to generate the image due to an error on my side" or similar in response to image generation requests.
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