AI Glossary

Generative AI

Also called GenAI

AI that produces new content, such as text, images, audio, video or code, modeled on the data it learned from and usually in response to a prompt. Chat assistants and image generators are common examples.

See also

  • Foundation model

    A large model trained on broad data that can be adapted to many different tasks, like the models behind chat assistants.

  • Multimodal

    Able to take in or produce more than one kind of data, such as text, images, audio and video.

  • AI slop

    Low quality content made with generative AI and put out with little human care or review, such as an article, an image or a block of code.

Source: NIST AI 600-1, Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (2024) (opens in a new tab)

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This term

Orbyt Labs, Generative AI (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/generative-ai

The dataset (JSON)

Orbyt Labs Glossaries (Oct 19, 2026), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#dataset

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