OpenAI: Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations with files
Affected components: Conversations
Timeline of updates
- monitoring
Error rates affecting ChatGPT conversations that use files and images have improved. We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved
All impacted services have now fully recovered.
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First version captured
In the 2026-10-17 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on . Record hash
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Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by OpenAI, started 2026-08-05 17:06 UTC, resolved after 3.2 h, 2 update(s).
- Title
- Elevated errors in ChatGPT conversations with files
- Vendor
- OpenAI
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/openai/incidents/01KZ9E7QD8WFJD5DMF73QGVYH8
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