AI engineering glossary · Generative media multimodal
What is negative prompt?
Negative prompt: A text description of what the generator should avoid. In diffusion pipelines using guidance, the negative prompt replaces the empty unconditional input, so sampling is pushed away from those concepts, helping remove unwanted artefacts or styles.
Negative prompt: an example
Adding 'blurry, extra fingers, watermark' as a negative prompt reduces malformed hands and stray logos.
Related terms
More Generative media multimodal terms
- Neural audio codec
- Neural radiance field
- Neural vocoder
- Noise schedule
- Normalizing flow
- Object hallucination
- Omni model
- Outpainting
Where you learn it
Negative prompt is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.