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🟡 OpenAI's DALL-E decided Picasso had the right idea—create nothing. ChatGPT users stuck asking an AI to describe pictures instead of generating them. The irony of an AI company investigating why their AI stopped working is *chef's kiss*. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Jul 21, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Image generation unavailable in ChatGPT

// Status page says

Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Image Generation (Partial outage)

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

https://status.openai.com//incidents/01KY23YCPJ9M5BFFT6ZHKQE9MP

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🟢 OPENAI 3d ago
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🟢 OPENAI 3d ago
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🟡 OpenAI's desktop app decided Work threads are overrated. Users now experiencing the cutting-edge feature of threads that simply don't exist. Engineering team is 'investigating' what surely won't take 6 hours to fix. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
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🟡 OpenAI's desktop app decided threads were too mainstream, now refusing to create them for regular users. Codex is having commitment issues. Engineers are investigating whether this was a feature or a bug—spoiler: it's a bug. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)