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AI in Marketing

Generative AI

AI that creates new text, images, audio, or video from prompts.

By Brandon MinaCEO, BrandPilot AIUpdated November 2026

Short answer

Generative AI is artificial intelligence that creates new content, such as text, images, audio, video or code, in response to prompts. It learns patterns from large training datasets and produces original outputs based on them. In marketing it is used for copywriting, creative production, personalization and research, with human review for accuracy.