The generative AI models are trained to emit content based on the input. The input instructions fed to a generative AI model are aptly called prompts.
Generative AI is based on foundation models trained on a large corpus of data based on unsupervised learning techniques.
When you pass a string as input to the base model, it generates another string that typically follows the input string.
The input prompt for these models is more descriptive and task-oriented than the prompts fed to the foundation models.