The Meaning of Generative Models in Machine Learning and Statistics

In Machine learning and statistics more genera are generally are kind of distinguished from something called discrimative models, so when in discriminative models we're focusing on Classifying the data. It's it's supervised In generative models we’re focusing on how the data was created in the first place. So in one sense is a form of unsupervised learning where you don't need? Labels for it, but it can be supervised to help people understand what text looks like.