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Because you use a prompt in natural language to produce some stuff for you...? In this case a translation. There are already entire companies who sell entire books translated using AI and there's a lot of them on Amazon. If "generative AI" were to refer to anything at all it seems strange you want it to exclude entire books generated by AI.

If you want to be strict about natural language actually being complete and grammatically correct sentences like we're talking here, then translation software is generative AI but some AI image generators like Stable Diffusion are not since they rely on you using a list of positive and negative tags and not sentences that you would speak. It would also mean that if I build an AI to send commands to a robot based on voice commands that would qualify as generative AI as well since it is producing the command output for me based on speech.