AI models & systems · Working

Generative AI

Also called: GenAI

ELI5

Software that creates new text, images, audio, video or other material from patterns learned from data.

Used in conversation

“The treatment used generative AI for references, so we need to disclose and review those images.”

Definition

AI systems that create new text, images, audio, video, code or other content from learned patterns.

Here “Generative AI” means: AI systems that create new text, images, audio, video, code or other content from learned patterns.

Pitch context

You may encounter “Generative AI” in accessibility, localisation, ethics & ai conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains access, language adaptation, care, provenance and emerging synthetic-media responsibilities.

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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.