If you’d like to visit a place where danger from the natural world is omnipresent and where lunch costs $60, I encourage you to visit Iceland. It is a beautiful and brutal landscape whose natural wonders (and terrors) make for incredible photographs. I took a bunch on a recent trip to the country. But it is possible, as I’ve unfortunately discovered, to make them terrifying in entirely new ways.

I turned Adobe’s new AI-powered Generative Fill tool on my Icelandic vacation photos, with both “legitimate” photo editing tasks and a few ridiculous prompts that resulted in nightmare fuel. Generative Fill is in beta now, and it’s based on Adobe’s Firefly image generator. It’s not entirely new, but having it right alongside all your standard photo editing sliders is new. You use it by making a selection — lasso, magic wand, whatever you like — and then typing in a text prompt. It can remove and add elements to your photo, or extend the image.

C'est fascinant et terrifiant à la fois : une sélection "au lasso", et hop, les photos sont mieux que la vraie vie (sauf pour les poneys, mais on ne peut pas tout avoir). Rien de nouveau, direz-vous ? Si, parce que ça ne demande quasiment aucune compétence : on sélectionne grossièrement, on rentre du texte pour dire ce que l'on veut et c'est l'IA qui fait le reste.