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title: "Generative AI"
description: "AI that outputs new content (text, images, audio, video, code) rather than an estimate about something that exists."
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/generative-ai
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-24
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# Generative AI

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](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/ai-defined#predictive-versus-generative)
- Chapters: [ch. 11, AI Defined](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/ai-defined)
- Contrast with: [Predictive AI](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/predictive-ai)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-generative-ai

## Sources

[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)