Generated

Generated is the past participle of the verb generate, meaning produced or created by a process or mechanism. The term comes from Latin generare and is commonly used across disciplines to indicate output that arises from an operation, system, or rule.

In computing and data contexts, generated items are outputs produced by software, hardware, or models. Examples include generated passwords, configuration files, and synthetic data. Autogenerated code, logs, and artifacts are also described as generated. In artificial intelligence, many contents are labeled as generated when produced by models or synthesis systems, such as text from a language model, images from a diffusion model, or audio from a speech synthesizer. Generated outputs can be deterministic (consistent given the same inputs) or stochastic (variable due to randomness).

In linguistics and formal language theory, sentences or structures are described as generated by a grammar or automaton, reflecting the rules of a formal system. The term also appears in mathematics and computing to denote objects produced by a defined rule or function.

Usage considerations include the quality and reliability of generated material. Generated content may require validation for accuracy, bias, originality, and appropriateness, particularly in critical applications.

See also: generate, generator, generation, synthetic data, auto-generated.