Nearly half of bloggers in small survey use AI for images

Almost half of the bloggers who responded to a new survey use artificial intelligence to create images. That is 47.5 percent, or 38 of 80 respondents. The figure comes from the "State of Blogging" survey, conducted by RightBlogger.

But the figure should be read with caution. The survey had only 81 participants and was conducted from April 8 to May 18, 2026, primarily among RightBlogger's own audience. The numbers therefore cannot be applied to all bloggers. RightBlogger also sells its own AI tool for blog automation.

Fifth place among AI tasks

Image generation is the fifth most common use of AI in the survey. Ahead of it are idea development (73.8 percent), editing (65 percent), research (63.8 percent) and first drafts (58.8 percent).

What are the images used for?

A guide from the blog Inspire to Thrive mentions several types of tasks: cover images for blog posts, posts on Instagram, Facebook, X and Pinterest, YouTube thumbnails (the small cover images for videos), simple ad graphics, product mockups (images showing what a product could look like) and e-book covers.

The guide mentions tools including RightBlogger, Canva, DALL·E, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly and Grok AI. Canva is described as useful for larger design tasks, but potentially slower for quick jobs.

Advice from the guide

According to the guide's author, you don't need to write technical commands for the tool. It is better to describe subject, mood, style and format in plain language.

The author also recommends saving the prompts that work and reusing them with small changes. That way you can maintain a consistent visual style across posts.

If you use the images commercially, the guide says you should make sure the tool's license allows commercial use.

Commercial interest

The guide's author prefers RightBlogger, because you can write a post and create a fitting header image without switching tools. Both sources thus have a commercial interest in the topic. Benefits such as time savings and price are documented only by industry guides, not by independent studies.