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A baseline is registered when the structure is healthy, and newly acquired signals are compared to it to detect, localize, and quantify damage. To this purpose, the performance of traditional methods has been overcome by data-driven approaches, which allow processing a larger amount of data without losing diagnostic information. However, to date, no diagnostic method can deal with varying environmental and operational conditions (EOCs). This work aims to present a proof-of-concept that state-of-the-art machine learning methods can be used for reducing the impact of EOCs on the performance of damage diagnosis methods. Generative artificial intelligence was leveraged to mitigate the impact of temperature variations on ultrasonic guided wave-based SHM. Specifically, variational autoencoders and singular value decomposition were combined to learn the influence of temperature on guided waves. After training, the generative part of the algorithm was used to reconstruct signals at new unseen temperatures. Moreover, a refined version of the algorithm called forced variational autoencoder was introduced to further improve the reconstruction capabilities. 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