AI systems that produce new text, images, sound or video from patterns learned in their training data, usually prompted in plain language. ChatGPT, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion brought it to the public in 2022.
I’m doing a project with Fellowship at the moment where we’re going back to an early project I did with a generative AI system I built in my studio around 2015. I had to build the training sets, models, image generators, etc.
Trevor Paglen, Trevor Paglen on Technological Points of View
When it comes to generative AI, it feels more like, “Hey, this is a query. Answer my query and do what I say.”
Linda Dounia, Linda Dounia on Memory Machines