Overview
- Users in India reported that ChatGPT would not produce images or returned error messages when they asked for AI-generated pictures.
- Downdetector.in recorded more than 100 complaints tied to image-generation failures, signaling a concentrated outage for that feature.
- Times Now tested across multiple devices and found text chat responses working while image-generation repeatedly failed to complete.
- OpenAI’s status page acknowledged elevated error rates and said it was investigating the disruption and restoring core functionality for some services.
- The outage affects creators, developers and businesses that rely on image generation and comes as India is one of OpenAI’s largest user markets.