Generative AI is a broad label used to describe any type of artificial intelligence (AI) that can be used to create new text, images, video, audio, or code. Large Language Models (LLMs) are part of this category of AI and produce text outputs.

ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are publicly available web based versions of generative AI, that allow users to enter text and seek a view from the system, or to ask the system to create textual output based on a given subject. They allow individuals to summarise long articles, get an answer of a specific length to a question, or have code written for a described function.

This guidance also covers the above, and other forms of generative AI, including systems such as DALL-E which generates images based on text and BLOOM which generates computer code.