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Generative AI

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AI that outputs new content (text, images, audio, video, code) rather than an estimate about something that exists. Its distinctive risks include confabulation, information integrity, intellectual property and abusive synthetic content 1; its evidence is groundedness, refusal and red-team evals and content marking.

Developed in
ch. 11, Predictive versus generative
Chapters
ch. 11, AI Defined
Contrast with
Predictive AI
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

7 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

One pattern page uses the term.

  • Hallucination

    Generative output that is stated confidently but is false or unsupported by its sources; NIST's generative AI profile calls it confabulation and lists it…

  • CAC (Cyberspace Administration of China)

    China's internet regulator (国家互联网信息办公室), lead issuer of the binding AI rules (algorithmic recommendation, deep synthesis, generative AI services and…

  • AI RMF profile

    An application of the AI RMF Core to a context.

  • Evals

    Automated tests of a model's or agent's behaviour (capability, safety and adversarial), run as controls, not as one-off research.

Sources

  1. [1] Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile, NIST AI 600-1 (twelve risks unique to or exacerbated by generative AI; confabulation defined). NIST. 2024-07. https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.AI.600-1 (verified: primary)

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Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Generative AI. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/generative-ai. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026generativeai,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Generative AI}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/generative-ai}
}