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Generating media in the Media Library

Wherever you pick media (a media field's Add media, or Insert Media in the editor), the Media Library can show tabs such as Generate image with AI. Each sits right after the tab of the media type it saves into (Image, then Generate image with AI; SVG Image, then Generate SVG with AI), unless the site placed them at the end. What you generate there is saved as that media type, like an upload in the tab before it.

Generate

  1. Open the Generate … with AI tab.
  2. Describe the image (or SVG, video), marked AI: say the subject, the setting and the style. An example button under the field puts that example in it, ready to edit. If the site offers it, the Dictate button fills the description from your voice.
  3. Open Options, when the site offers any, to choose a shape (with its pixel size), a format, a quality, a model, or an SVG style. Closed, it shows what is chosen, such as "Options (Square, PNG)".
  4. Press Generate image (or SVG, video). It reads "Generating…" and the page says it can take up to a minute.

The line under the description says which provider makes it and that your description is sent there: "Made by AI with OpenAI. Your description is sent to OpenAI. Check the result before you use it." With site context it adds "Uses site context from this site". Under Generate, "Each press is a paid request to …" reminds you that every press costs credit (not shown for test providers, or when the site turns it off).

Review, refine, save

The result waits in the same step as an upload, with its Name and, for images and SVGs, its Alternative text prefilled from your description. An image is shown once, at a size you can check, with its file size, format and pixel size and an Open full size in a new tab link. The help under the alternative text says where it came from: your description, or "Written by AI from the image" when AI wrote it.

  • Change the description and press Generate again to replace the result in place.
  • Remove goes back to the empty form, with your description kept.
  • Fix the name and alternative text, then Save and select (or Save and insert).

Nothing reaches the library until you save. A result you walk away from is a temporary file that cron removes.

When the tab is missing or says it is not set up

See Troubleshooting.