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They call it a machine learning algorithm i call it lossy text compression.
When you give it a prompt it uncompresses a small portion of the petabytes of zipped information based on the relevance of the keywords you choose. The "generation" comes from approximations of keywords and the underlying prompt. It isn't "generating" information as much as big tech wants you to believe, its taking information from multiple sources and combining it into one contiguously flowing statement. For people who didn't understand what I said, generative AI operates similarly by taking 2 paint colors and making a new kind of color from it. It isn't critical thinking, it's more of experimenting with no basis, reason, or hypothesis.
To conclude, the underlying mechanism is a lossy compression algorithm: there is no way to reduce the size from petabytes of information to a sheer 40gb downloadable size besides through lossy compression. The "generative AI" component is analogisly equivalent to making a new color of paint by combining two or more other colored paints. It's entire existence is through experimentation with no preamtive basis that adding two or more colors would give you a new color. It will never figure that it even after having done the experiment.