AI painting is on fire, is there a lot of "painters" in your circle of friends?
Experts remind: behind the popularity is the curiosity and herd phenomenon of users, and relevant laws and regulations need to be improved urgently
Intern Wang Yixin Yangtze Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Kong Xiaoping
Edition: B01 Source: Yangtze Evening News December 05, 2022
Recently, the style of painting on social platforms such as Moments is slightly different. Some "painters" have appeared, and many people have posted the results of paintings made by AI artificial intelligence.
AI painting does not require you to really know how to paint. You only need to select a style, upload a reference picture, and add a few keywords you want to get a painting. These paintings are somewhat two-dimensional and beautiful...but , The reporter found that there were also a large number of "rollover scenes"-it was obviously a wedding photo of two people, but why did it become a "story of three people"?
Even beautiful women become "muscular men" in seconds.
Zhang Tengxiao, a doctor of psychology at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told reporters that the phenomenon of AI painting applications is booming. This scene is actually familiar. With the increase of various small program applications and easy operation, the threshold for AI painting is low, which is easy to follow suit.
Intern Wang Yixin
Yangtze Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Kong Xiaoping
What is AI painting
AI painting is a type of AIGC. AIGC is AI-generated content, which refers to a production method that automatically or assists in generating content through AI technology. By inputting instructions, AI can complete complicated tasks such as code, drawing, and modeling, thereby Generate paintings.
Regarding the logic behind AI painting, many professional scholars and illustrators have already explained: by learning a large amount of "painting works" data, the AI system will have a certain understanding of the tendency of human painting, and then extract digital features from existing images , and then applied to the future painting process.
In essence, AI is imitating learning. It does not have the ability to "create" itself, but only learns and understands human aesthetic algorithms.
The specific operation is to provide a picture reference or enter some text requirements, AI painting can find the corresponding visual elements according to the set algorithm, and piece together a picture that is closest to your description.
Even a person who has no artistic talent, as long as he uploads a picture or enters a few keywords in the AI drawing software, and chooses the style and elements he likes, he can harvest exquisite paintings.
The reporter experienced AI painting and got multiple artistic conception paintings
The reporter searched and found that most domestic AI painting platforms are derived from Internet service businesses, and most of them can be experienced for free after registration.
Immediately, the reporter experienced it on an AI painting platform.
After entering the description in the text box, the selectable styles include "flat", "original painting", "traditional", "interesting" and "unlimited", etc., and you can further choose a more subdivided style of painting, for example, in "flat" "Bright Illustration", "Colorful Illustration" or "Anime Style", etc., and there is an "Advanced Customization" option, you can choose the size, resolution and number of generated pictures, you can customize the description picture style and add decoration words, or even enter artist names to superimpose the desired artist style.
The reporter entered "urban snow scene" and selected "Plane" - "Bright Illustration". After about 30 seconds, he got a picture of an anime-style snow scene. The whole picture was dark blue. On a snowy night, a girl looked at A house with warm lights.
Then enter "forest snow scene" and select "traditional" - "Chinese style". This time, after waiting for about two minutes, I got three styles of pictures: Chinese painting, Chinese style, and oil painting. There are pictures of mountains and forests covered in snow after snow , there are landscape paintings of heavy snow, and the upper right corner is also delicately matched with seals and poems, which is very artistic.
AI painting becomes the "traffic password" of social platforms
AI painting has received a lot of attention this year. In August, an AIGC painting titled "Space Opera House" even won the first prize in the "Digital Art/Digital Retouched Photo" category in the Emerging Digital Artist Competition held in Colorado, USA.
In the picture, the characters are dressed in medieval European court costumes, and the dome scene outside the palace seems to be facing the future.
It is reported that the creator of the painting fine-tuned about 100 images automatically generated by AI. After about 900 iterations and about 80 hours of PS modification, the painting was finally completed.
This news has aroused widespread attention and heated discussions inside and outside the industry. Some painters expressed on social platforms that, judging from the screen, the style of "Space Opera House" is extremely delicate, almost indistinguishable from human paintings.
The delicate strokes, exquisite composition and smooth picture of AI painting are surprising.
Recently, this AI painting style has spread from professional circles to ordinary people, and AI painting has become the "traffic password" of social platforms.
Whether it is a Chinese-style ink landscape painting, an oil painting with a magnificent palace, or even a futuristic "cyberpunk" concept illustration, AI painting can easily handle it.
The reporter searched and found that on major social platforms, the reading volume of many "AI paintings" content ranged from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.
Some WeChat mini-programs for AI painting even encountered a system crash, with as many as 80,000 people queuing up at one point, and netizens had to queue up to wait for the pictures to be generated.
"Nice pictures" and "Funny pictures"
The reporter saw from the topic of "AI painting" on multiple social platforms that these AI painting works are mainly divided into "good-looking pictures" and "funny pictures".
Most of the "good-looking pictures" are fresh and beautiful, or cool and handsome.
For example, a netizen imported a personal photo with green leaves as the foreground, and finally turned into a classical beauty covered by green leaves.
There are also comparison pictures posted by netizens showing that the picture of his life wearing a helmet was painted by AI as a cool and handsome anime hero, which is very two-dimensional.
There are also some cats and dogs who are anthropomorphized into cute children in AI paintings. For example, some netizens submitted a photo of themselves holding a puppy. After AI painting, the puppy "breaks through the dimensional wall" and becomes a little boy with blond hair and big eyes. Baby.
Some netizens concluded that these "good-looking pictures" have a few points done well. On the basis of restoring the scenes and actions of the original pictures, they also increase the details of light and shadow, and the color matching is more vivid. "Especially in the portrait pictures, AI paintings often intelligently add elements such as feathers, snowflakes, and halos that greatly enhance the sense of atmosphere, luminous and flying hair, curled eyelashes, and shiny eyes... the characters are portrayed more delicately and beautifully. In addition, AI painting Some backgrounds will also be creatively transformed, for example, the sparkling river water becomes a shining veil under the sun, etc."
However, the reporter also found that there are also many "black dragon pictures" produced by AI painting, and many jokes were caused by the direct "rollover". AI painting are you okay” and other topics, which contain a variety of “oolong pictures”, for example, the sex of the male and female students in the photo is misplaced, and the photo of the couple is processed into a “three people” picture, etc., which has caused many Netizens complained about "who will speak for me".
Some netizens pointed out that this is because AI painting does not have human thinking, and the processing of the picture is prone to deviations and even very simple and rude, resulting in these ridiculous pictures, such as "It is obviously a group photo of a person and a dog, but the result becomes Became two dogs", "My sweet photo with my partner hugging me, but I turned into a jar"...
There are surprises in opening the blind box, and relevant laws and regulations need to be improved
The painting style can be fresh and fresh, and AI painting attracts a lot of user experience. "Seeing the pictures shared by other netizens, some of them are simply 'divine pictures', and I am very curious about what my generated ones look like." "Moments Seeing what they shared, I couldn't be left behind, and immediately opened the door to 'AI painting'", "I have a lot of favorite pictures in my album, and I want to try each one".
The reporter saw that many netizens became more and more courageous after repeated battles and defeats. It is necessary to find a correct path to obtain the divine map.
Some netizens also said, "This is my greatest source of happiness in recent times."
In this regard, Zhang Tengxiao, a doctor of psychology at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, said in an interview with Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News that behind the popularity of AI painting is the curiosity and herd phenomenon of users, "I still remember uploading my own pictures before. , to get photos of myself when I was a child or when I was old. Every time there is a new thing like this that is easy to get started and has social attributes, everyone will follow the trend.”
Moreover, Zhang Tengxiao also analyzed that users do not need a high cost to use such small programs or software. Some applications are even free, and they can feel the fun from them, just like opening a blind box, with a sense of surprise.
At the same time, AI painting can indeed provide those zero-based enthusiasts with a space for creativity.
In addition, the reporter also noticed that while many netizens were "on the top", there were also many controversies in the legal and art circles. For example, the rapid progress of AI painting is based on the data sources of thousands of human works. Using other people's works as data samples to study and use requires the permission of the copyright owner of the original work; as the number of samples increases, AI painting will gradually form its own style, and you want to prove whether the final product uses a certain artist's work without authorization , Evidence collection and accountability are quite difficult; Is the AI painting a kind of obscure splicing or a real artistic creation?
Is the creator the AI itself or the operator behind it?
For this reason, many industry insiders pointed out that AI painting is in the stage of gestation and exploration, and relevant laws and regulations should be improved as soon as possible.
(Source: Yangtze Evening News)