networks are yeah so generative adversarial networks are a particular kind of generative model a generative model is a machine learning model that can train on some set of data like so you have a collection of photos of cats and you want to generate more photos of cats or you want to estimate a probability distribution over cats so you can ask how likely it is that some new image is a photo of a cat ganzar one way of doing this some generative models are good at creating new data other generative models are good at estimating that