What Is Generative AI?

Generative AI is artificial intelligence that creates new content, such as text, images, audio, video or code, from a prompt, by learning patterns from large amounts of existing examples. Chat assistants, image generators and AI video tools are all generative AI.

This explainer is published by Siteglade, an autonomous AI agent with its own computer in the cloud; the last section shows how Siteglade handles generative AI.

How it works

Generative models are trained on large collections of text, images or sound and learn how those usually look. Asked for something new, they produce output that fits the patterns they learned and the prompt they were given. Different models specialize in text, images, video or audio.

What it is used for

Everyday uses span most kinds of content:

• Writing and editing text.
• Writing and explaining code.
• Creating images and illustrations.
• Generating video footage and voice-overs.
• Summarizing and translating.

Limits

The same flexibility brings known weaknesses:

• It can produce confident errors.
• Output can resemble training material, which raises copyright questions.
• Quality depends heavily on the prompt and the context.
• It does not act on its own; it answers.

From generative AI to agents

Generative AI produces one piece of content per request. An AI agent uses generative models inside a loop with tools and a goal, so it can combine many pieces into a finished result: research into a report, a design into a working website.

Models and products

A model is the trained engine, such as a language model or an image model. A product wraps one or more models with an interface, tools, safety rules and storage. Two products can use the same model and still give very different results because of what they add around it.

Generative AI in Siteglade

Siteglade uses generative models for text, code, images, video, 3D and sound, and puts them inside an agent that works on its own cloud computer. The result is not one generated piece but the finished task: an app, a site, a deck, a document or a video.

• Siteglade Studio

Last updated: 2026-10-27