Glossary term
Glossary term
Multimodal AI
Image editing technique using generative AI to fill masked or removed image regions seamlessly.
Adobe Photoshop's Generative Fill (2023) uses Firefly's inpainting capability - designers select a region, type a text prompt, and the model fills it with contextually plausible content, used in 2M+ creative workflows.
Google Photos Magic Eraser uses inpainting to remove distracting objects (photo bombers, power lines, litter) from photos - the surrounding context is used as conditioning to generate a seamless replacement.
Runway Gen-2's inpainting feature allows filmmakers to remove production equipment, replace actors' faces, and digitally alter set dressing in post-production without green-screen reshoots.