OpenAI has resolved the elevated-errors incident affecting the Image Generation component under ChatGPT. At 01:00:42 on November 9, China Standard Time (Asia/Shanghai), it confirmed that all affected services were operating normally again. The incident carried a minor impact rating.
OpenAI identified the elevated errors at 23:11:15 and said it was implementing a mitigation. At 23:43:50, it reported that a mitigation had been applied and that it was monitoring the affected services to confirm recovery. Both times are China Standard Time on November 8; the first update does not establish when the disruption began. At 01:00:42 on November 9, China Standard Time, OpenAI marked the incident resolved and said all affected services were operating normally again.
The incident affected ChatGPT → Image Generation, which is now operational. The status overview also shows All Systems Operational. The separately listed Images component remained operational. The notice does not identify a specific image model or API endpoint.
OpenAI has not provided a root cause or the proportion of users affected.