  With the impressive achievements of chatGPT and Sora, generative artificial
intelligence (GAI) has received increasing attention. Not limited to the field
of content generation, GAI is also widely used to solve the problems in
wireless communication scenarios due to its powerful learning and
generalization capabilities. Therefore, we discuss key applications of GAI in
improving unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication and networking
performance in this article. Specifically, we first review the key technologies
of GAI and the important roles of UAV networking. Then, we show how GAI can
improve the communication, networking, and security performances of UAV
systems. Subsequently, we propose a novel framework of GAI for advanced UAV
networking, and then present a case study of UAV-enabled spectrum map
estimation and transmission rate optimization based on the proposed framework
to verify the effectiveness of GAI-enabled UAV systems. Finally, we discuss
some important open directions.
