Generative AI is artificial intelligence that produces new content (text, images, audio, video or 3D) based on patterns it learned from large amounts of training data. Chat assistants that write text and tools that create images from a description are both generative AI.
Main families
- Language models generate text: answers, descriptions, shopping lists, prompts.
- Image models, mostly diffusion models, generate or edit pictures.
- Video and 3D models extend the same ideas to motion and geometry.
In interior design
Generative AI is used to:
- redesign a room from a photo in a chosen style (AI interior design);
- furnish empty rooms for listings (virtual staging);
- build mood boards and colour palettes;
- draft briefs, product lists and prompts with a chat assistant.
What to keep in mind
Generative AI produces plausible results, not verified ones. An image can show a sofa that does not exist or a layout that would not fit. Treat the output as a starting point and check dimensions, products and anything structural.