Glossary

Prompt-based art

Prompt-based art is art created by writing and refining text prompts that direct a generative AI model to produce images, where the prompt itself is the primary creative act. It became widespread after the 2022 releases of Midjourney, DALL-E 2, and Stable Diffusion, and it has driven ongoing debate over authorship, since the artist composes instructions rather than the final image directly.