{"slug": "image-generation-fails-with-invalid-key-size-0-for-aes", "title": "Image generation fails with `Invalid key size (0) for AES.`", "summary": "Image generation is failing intermittently with the error \"Invalid key size (0) for AES.\", according to a user report, who suspects the failures stem from a daily quota on image generation costs being exhausted, noting the problem previously occurred frequently during US nighttime hours. The user also said that handling AI provider errors in a sensible way has been a sore spot in general.", "body_md": "I haven't seen this error for a while, but, it's intermittent.\n\nIn the past I found that image generation was frequently failing during nighttime (in the US) specifically.\n\nMy suspicion is that they set a daily quota for image gen costs, which often gets blown through in less than a day.\n\nAlso, it seems that handling AI provider errors in a sensible way has been a sore spot in general.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/image-generation-fails-with-invalid-key-size-0-for-aes", "canonical_source": "https://kagifeedback.org/d/10455-image-generation-fails-with-invalid-key-size-0-for-aes/4", "published_at": "2026-10-05 17:56:42+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-05 18:17:20.442724+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-products"], "entities": [], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/image-generation-fails-with-invalid-key-size-0-for-aes", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/image-generation-fails-with-invalid-key-size-0-for-aes.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/image-generation-fails-with-invalid-key-size-0-for-aes.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/image-generation-fails-with-invalid-key-size-0-for-aes.jsonld"}}