Generative AI, not AI

What the book means by generative AI, how a language model works in plain words, where hallucinations come from, and where Dinis was corrected. 12 panels.

draft 12 panels · gen-z.journalist, 18 October 2026, from Dinis's memo on generative AI · book v1.0.0 is the only official version; the second edition is in release candidates (rc1 and rc2 frozen). Every line the Guide says, and every quote card, is from the article 'Generative AI, not AI', word for word; the build checks it. The next-word probabilities in panel 4 are illustrative.

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The panels

1. Generative AI, not AI: The technology this book is about is the one that generates. (cover; Generative AI, not AI)
2. AI has become a huge bucket, and to be honest the word gets abused a lot.. AI → Machine learning → Deep learning → Generative AI (spectrum; Generative AI, not AI, Where I was corrected)
3. What makes it generative. The Guide says: “it generates the output” (scene; Generative AI, not AI, How I understand it)
4. Predicting the next word. The Guide says: “what happens is that it predicts the next word” (scene; Generative AI, not AI, How I understand it)
5. Why a better prompt helps. Zara says: “Here's ten minutes of context.” The Guide says: “the better your prompt, the better the output” (scene; Generative AI, not AI, How I understand it)
6. Where hallucinations come from. The Agent says: “Your 2018 book has a chapter on Kotlin.” The Guide says: “Just about everything is connected to everything” (scene; Generative AI, not AI, Where hallucinations come from)
7. Lisbon, June 2024. “Are a FEATURE when creating content and when we want creativity, But are a BUG and PROBLEM when we want facts, evident and trust” (Dinis's t (evidence; Generative AI, not AI, Where hallucinations come from)
8. The image that made it click. Zara says: “So text works the same way?” (scene; Generative AI, not AI, The image that made it click; Deterministic GenAI Output With Provenance, slide 70)
9. And then text. The Guide says: “that is exactly what happens with text” (scene; Generative AI, not AI, The image that made it click)
10. Corrected: hallucinations have a second cause. “a guess is sometimes right, while an honest "I don't know" scores nothing” (Why Language Models Hallucinate, Kal (evidence; Generative AI, not AI, Where I was corrected)
11. Corrected: what is actually inside. The Agent says: “Inside me: numbers, layers and attention. No stored graph.” The Guide says: “My graph is a metaphor, and th (scene; Generative AI, not AI, Where I was corrected)
12. A note on the name. Gen Z → GenAI → Gen Alpha → Gen Beta (spectrum; Generative AI, not AI, A note on the name)

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