Instagram Stories is getting new AI-powered editing tools

Meta is bringing more of its generative AI-powered photo and video editing tools directly to Instagram Stories. With the changes, you can now use text prompts to remove or change objects in your photos or "restyle" the image completely.

The new tools live in a new "restyle" menu at the top of the Stories composer. You can select "add," "remove" or "change" to tweak specific elements of your images. These features work a lot like either AI-based image editing tools; you can do things like remove stray objects from the backgrounds of photos or change up a person's outfit. You can also make more dramatic edits, like in the photo below, when I asked Meta AI to "change the background to make it look like the cat is in space."

The prompt bar can also be used to iterate on images without the "add, change, remove" constraints. It still ...