"Instagram's New AI-Powered Background Editing Tool Revolutionizes Story Creation"

Instagram has introduced a generative AI-powered background editing tool for its U.S.-based users. The tool allows users to change the background of their images through prompts for Stories, such as "On a red carpet" or "Being chased by dinosaurs." Users can also create their own prompts. Once a user posts a Story with the newly generated background, others can play with the image generation tool using a "Try it" sticker. This follows Snapchat's release of a similar AI-generated image tool for paying users. Meta, Instagram's parent company, has been expanding the use of AI across its apps and recently launched a standalone AI-image generator called Imagine with Meta.