Recently, we can always find exquisite pictures on major Internet platforms and circles of friends. You think they are drawn by painters, but in fact they are all made by AI.
AI painting has once again appeared in the public eye. After Alpha-Go, which was born in the world of Go, AI (artificial intelligence) painting has aroused people's dialogue controversy. Whether AI will replace humans has also become an eternal topic.
What is AI painting?
AIGC, or AI-Generat-edContent (the production method of automatically generating content with AI technology), may lead this round of content industrialization. As the number and efficiency of machine learning have doubled, in just a few months, AI has evolved from only being able to generate mosaic paintings to being almost the same as the works of human painters. The digital painting industry seems to have smelled the crisis in advance.
What chaos still exists in AI painting? What impact did it have on the industry structure? How is the industry responding to this change? Can it really replace human painters? Let's take a look today.
In fact, AI painting has appeared many years ago, and it was recognized by the public because in an art competition at the Colorado Expo in the United States on August 31, an AI work called "Space Opera House" was born out of nowhere. It won the first prize, and it was on the hot search several times at that time, so the controversy between AI painting and human painters began.
But in fact, what AI imitates is actually the style of painting, that is, data, which is pieced together after learning from various data models. This is still different from the "creation" of human painters.
It can be seen that AI cannot completely replace humans at present, but AI can provide humans with more painting inspirations. Even the painting "Space Opera House" is a painting that was created by humans after it was generated by AI and modified continuously.
The copyright issue of AI paintings is also a point of debate. From the perspective of the domestic market, most of the works of AI paintings cannot be used for commercial use. Even if some platforms say they can be used for commercial purposes, they can only obtain the authorization of the owner. . The user agreement of each platform is different, but I suggest that it is not necessary for commercial use.
What AI painting tools are currently available in China? The following are some domestic AI painting platforms I have summarized, I hope it will be helpful to you.
| platform |
price |
Developer |
URL |
| Pickup Smart AI |
There are free + paid |
Hangzhou Wangdao Holding Co., Ltd. |
https://www.picup.shop/text2image.html#/ |
| Wenxin model |
temporarily free |
baidu |
https://wenxin.baidu.com/moduleApi/ernieVilg |
| Wenxin-One Grid |
temporarily free |
baidu |
https://yige.baidu.com/#/ |
| 6p |
partly free |
Beijing Yarn Ball Technology Co., Ltd. |
https://6pen.art/ |
| MuseArt |
Pay + Watch Ads |
AI painting applet developed by Chengdu company |
WeChat applet search MuseArt |
| Great Painter Domo |
- |
Dimo Community |
|
| Thief |
There are free times + paid |
West Lake Xinchen |
Wechat Mini Program Search Thieves Dream Master |
| draw a few pictures |
- |
Personally developed free AI painting applet |
Wechat mini program to search for a few paintings |
| smart drawing |
free + watch ads |
/ |
WeChat Mini Program Search Smart Drawing |
| Feilian cloud AI painting layout |
free |
/ |
https://ai.feilianyun.cn/ |
| Freehand freehand drawing |
free |
Shenzhen Yunwu Network Technology Co., Ltd. |
https://freehand.yunwooo.com/ |
| Instant AI |
free |
Beijing Xueyun Ruichuang Technology Co., Ltd. |
https://js.design/pluginDetail?id=6322a4ab0eededcff6ba451a |
| Opinion AI Painting |
There are free times + paid |
Ma'anshan Duogan Information Technology |
WeChat applet search opinion AI painting |
| PAI |
free |
Shanghai Xunta Network Technology Co., Ltd. |
https://artpai.xyz/ |
| love to paint |
There are free times + paid |
Suzhou Yuanhe Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. |
https://aizuohua.com/ |
Although the generation effect of these tools may not be as good as that of foreign countries, the convenient login, friendly operation interface, and more importantly Chinese input are the unparalleled competitiveness of domestic software. If you want a better generation effect, maybe it would be better to use English keyword generation.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that AI painting itself has a lot of randomness. Even if the same keyword is input, different works will be generated each time. Such randomness has advantages and disadvantages. It can give uninspired Users' endless references can also make users with clear requirements beat their chests.
Therefore, a successful AI painting requires not only a few keyword descriptions, but even a "lengthy essay" to complete. Including various picture details, painting style, artist and other dimensions, in order to facilitate the use of ordinary users, most domestic AI painting tools display the style separately for users to choose, and there is even a "painting by painting" mode.
Looking at home and abroad, the development trend of the AI content industry is unstoppable. The "China AI Digital Business Outlook 2021-2025" report released by the Zhongguancun Big Data Industry Alliance predicts that by 2025, the scale of China's AI digital business core pillar industry chain will reach 185.3 billion yuan, with a compound growth rate of about 57.7% in the next five years. Among them, the scale of the AI digital business content industry will reach 49.5 billion yuan.
At present, it seems that AI painting is only used for entertainment purposes. But in fact, without you knowing, many people have already started to make money using AI painting. Now AI paintings mainly flow to offline advertising, brand marketing, and digital collections and other scenes that have a large demand for artistic renderings.
This will be the general trend. Although AI cannot completely replace humans, it has created a lot of convenience for humans. The application of this technology is also rising from the C-side to the B-side. Many companies have added AI painting to their workflow to optimize related business processes.
Even AI painting has become one of the professional skills of painters, and it is even redefining this profession.
Learning to draw is not the biggest surprise that AI brings to mankind. AIGC is breaking the boundaries of text, image, voice, video and other content forms, and constantly deduces new ways to subvert human cognition.
AI painting is not the end, this is just the beginning of AIGC technology!