This document provides an overview of generative artificial intelligence and related data privacy issues. It defines generative AI as a type of AI that can generate new content like text, images, and videos by learning from existing data. It discusses how generative AI models require large datasets for training, which are often scraped from the publicly available internet without consent. Some key policy considerations for Congress around these privacy issues are existing U.S. sectoral privacy laws, proposed comprehensive privacy legislation, existing agency authorities, regulation of data scraping, and supporting alternative technical approaches.