Adobe’s conversational AI agent is a mediocre design intern
Adobe’s Firefly AI Assistant is engaging and educational, but its visual output still feels amateur.
The Verge tested Adobe’s Firefly AI Assistant beta, a conversational tool that can perform multi-step image edits using Adobe-style capabilities. It explains its process, asks follow-up questions, and is open about limitations, making it more instructive than many creative chatbots. But the actual edits are often imperfect, with weak blending and middling generative results, so it feels more useful for casual users than professionals.
This hands-on review from The Verge evaluates the Adobe Firefly AI Assistant beta. The author's initial impression of common AI image tools is that most of them let people without design experience type in a few words and get a usable result, with the creators themselves not necessarily really participating in the process; but Adobe's design this time is closer to a "design assistant that can chat." It does not operate directly inside the Adobe apps on the user's computer; instead, within a chat interface, it uses common Adobe capabilities—such as masking, object detection, image generation, and image retouching—to complete multi-step tasks for the user. After testing it, the author found that the most interesting thing was not the quality of the finished product, but the fact that it explains what it is doing.
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