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🟠 GPT-4 Vision's prettier cousin (gpt-image-2.5-flare) decided images were optional. OpenAI applied a band-aid and is now watching to see if it holds. Spoiler: monitoring never means things are actually fixed. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Sep 16, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Elevated errors with gpt-image-2.5-flare

// Status page says

Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Images (Partial outage)

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.openai.com//incidents/01M2KQNE5C42NEZPX6V01NHH5W

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