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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 an ongoing outage.

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"Image generation unavailable in ChatGPT," says OpenAI's status page.

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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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