Methods, systems, and products for question-responsive retrieval, including: generating, using at least one generative model, a generated question from textual data in a dataset, wherein the generated question corresponds to information contained in the textual data; generating a question vector representation of the generated question; generating an input vector representation of an input question; determining that the question vector representation satisfies a similarity criterion relative to the input vector representation; retrieving the textual data from the dataset in response to determining that the question vector representation satisfies the similarity criterion; and generating, using the at least one generative model, an answer to the input question based on the retrieved textual data.