OpenAI Playground: the generated images disappear once the generation is finished
OpenAI Developer Community
April 30, 2026
Issue confirmed: the image is briefly shown, then obliterated.
Notable is that the “get code” doesn’t have the assistant response turn at all, despite that there are two “assistant” blank boxes in the UI and there should be event delivery output that is reflected in further inputs.
You edit text of one of the blank boxes, and then the assistant output_text is populated in code example, so it could be client-side code that is unaware of event handling when moving turns to “input” for another call.
You can control your costs and direct image creation better by using the ./images API, anyway.
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