text | Linghu Boguang
AI has been in a lot of trouble in the past two years, especially when gpt comes out in 2023, many jobs will feel the crisis. Especially at that time, painting, two-dimensional and other works caused great controversy. But then it disappeared. Although AI is iterating and making rapid progress, this statement is gradually dimming.
Since I am personally an author in the field of pop culture, I won’t mention other fields. Let’s talk about it from the field of pop culture.
So, if AI develops further, will it replace popular culture? Like painting? Music and other industries?
My answer is that on the surface, text work and painting are the easiest, but it is still unlikely until AI can truly develop autonomous consciousness. Because in addition to realism, human art also has abstraction. The most important thing is that there is more abstraction and less realism. If you don't know much about painting now, it may be good to take a look at it, but if you know a little about painting, you know you can't take a closer look.
Nowadays, AI is just like Tu Yile. I wonder if any painters are worried about being replaced. I dare say that it is impossible now and will not be possible in the future. The meaning given to paintings is defined by people. For example, Picasso Are his paintings good-looking? If not, you wouldn’t want to give them to me if you didn’t mention Picasso. But people like Picasso not because of how beautiful the pictures are, but because they can interpret his thoughts and feelings when he paints through his paintings. This is the charm of painting.
Painting is also called emotional embodiment. Only one person can give emotion and meaning to a picture. Indeed, low-level painters who don’t want to work hard but don’t have the best painting skills and don’t even have any wild ideas will worry about being eliminated. You are still crying about AI taking over your job. The big guys have already learned how to make AI a handy tool. You can use AI Secondly create based on ideas, refine and express your own ideas.
After all, after all, AI is just a tool. It only has stitches but no ideas. It has only appearance but no inner machine. It is thought-provoking how long it takes to learn AI and how long it takes to sew, but it still can't sew like Wuhe Qilin. Game manufacturers will not hire so-called AIs for painting. AIs are not human, they cannot understand human speech, and they cannot understand the character design. It would also require professional painters to make changes.
However, as far as gpt has been iterated for four generations and can produce more and more understandable works, perhaps only abstraction will remain in the future.
ai is getting more and more powerful? Awakening aside, why is the impact of painting so great?
Is there only one person who can give emotion and meaning to a picture? The theory is like this, but the view is biased at this point. In fact, the interaction of the human brain can be calculated theoretically (although the reality has only been realized for a part of the mouse brain). Science is a discipline that values facts. In fact, in Before the advent of AI, the ability to learn through self-reflection was considered a unique human trait.
Various human emotions and feelings come from the world view from birth to the present and the emotions caused by dopamine secretion in the brain. Theoretically speaking, if a person's various experiences and feelings from birth to the present can be completely simulated, the same can be done Simulate his emotions, or explain them in a popular sense.
The so-called emotions and meanings of human beings are naturally evolved from the dopamine in the brain, rather than the emotions given to us by God (the latter is also called religion)
ai No matter how long you learn to sew, you will never be able to sew like a unicorn. It is thought-provoking. The first mistake is that the images generated by AI are not stitched. In addition, from a sentence structure, such remarks without time conditions are generally considered to be more emotional than rational. The sentence here should be changed to "With the current level of AI painting, based on the existing model, it is impossible to achieve the level of first-line writers such as Wuhe Qilin"
In addition, only with the current level of AI, it can be achieved with the establishment of a system For large-scale mass production of pictures, even if the success rate is less than or equal to 0.1% (that is, only one out of 1,000 pictures is qualified), AI can be completed for free and in less than or equal to the time of the same painter.The future development of
ai is indeed unlikely to replace painting. On the contrary, it may force the painting industry to progress, because third-rate painters whose quality is less than or equal to ai painting will be eliminated, which to a certain extent raises the threshold for entry into the painting industry, but at the same time It also prevents the occurrence of some bad phenomena (for example, manuscripts that trace and steal pictures have to be watermarked, etc.)
At the same time, people who are really passionate about painting itself (rather than the painting circle, that is, not for the purpose of making money) will not be eliminated and can also express themselves. own emotions.
In fact, there are so many comments against AI on the Internet. On the one hand, the threshold for entering the pit of painting is far lower than the standard for entering the pit of artificial model algorithm iteration. On the other hand, it is also because those who quietly experiment with models will not pay attention to it. In online quarrels, when a technology matures and is known to the public, any resistance is of no use.
The reason why the painting industry is more resistant than the AI Go industry is that on the one hand, AI is immature, and on the other hand, because there is no first person in literature and no second in martial arts. The outcome of Go can be seen, but whether a painting looks good or not is just a matter of time. Being able to follow our inner feelings (the latest models have basically solved the hand problem and have begun to overcome problems such as holding objects)
Although the current resistance to the AI industry is so noble, it is actually still a Luddite movement. People have no generally accepted definition of beauty, but they all have their own inner standards. When you see really good-looking AI pictures, and then compare them with those hand-drawn paintings by third-rate painters, is AI really inferior to humans?
Is the machine awakening coming? It is possible, but it is not yet possible to defeat humans.
Whenever we talk about the awakening of AI iteration, we immediately talk about ideas and emotions, but what exactly are the so-called "ideas" and "emotions"? Nowadays, the popular AI paintings are easy to distinguish because there are only a few popular models, and there is a certain convergence of painting styles. If more painting models are released in the future, the painting style and precision will be further improved. By then, I will If I want to express an emotion, wouldn't it be nice to just let the AI paint the painting first and then pick out the ones that match my emotion?
Maybe AI can't accurately draw what I want at once, but can't the so-called emotions be traversed? If there is not one painting, I will ask AI to draw 10,000 paintings. One of them will be able to accurately express the emotion I want.
In fact, ordinary people who do not understand art are the majority in the world. AI composition and painting are indeed not as good as senior practitioners at present, but is it really that bad? Not necessarily. And from the perspective of cost efficiency and other aspects, as long as AI is not ridiculously bad, it will only take time to replace human labor.
Of course, this does not mean that all labor will disappear, but the threshold for learning music and painting will be much higher. There is a lot of cost investment in the early stage and there may not be output in the later stage. The family that can support such people must be rich or not. Expensive, music students and art students will be significantly reduced compared to now. Once the base is reduced, more shares will be replaced by AI.
So I think it is impossible for AI to completely replace it, but it is very possible to replace 80%.
I remember that when everyone learns a new language, the first thing they learn are swear words. Swear words sound vulgar, vulgar, and unflattering, but they are also highly accepted and widely disseminated, just like pornographic pictures, which does not count. What an advanced painting art, but it spreads quickly and everyone can understand it. The further you go, the more time and energy you need. Painting requires composition, light and shadow, and music requires music theory and arrangement.
But most people can't get to this point. They stop at swearing, pornographic pictures, and salivating songs, because these are just pastimes for them, and their more important proposition is survival. Therefore, I think that unless science and technology can improve by leaps and bounds in the future, material resources will be greatly enriched, and people's living needs will be greatly satisfied, otherwise the public's aesthetics will always be like this, and nipple music is enough for the general public. .
It is true that the public cannot see it now, but the world is not static. After the popularity of AI works increases, the aesthetic level of the whole people will be forced into a state of rapid improvement by AI.
This is why ai painting is popular, but only a little bit, because people will be surprised by the birth of the first new form of work, but ai quickly mass-produces tens of thousands of them, which are equally the same and excellent. , causing rapid public aesthetic fatigue. At the beginning of last year, if I showed you and me a picture of SD running, we would both be amazed, but now I don’t feel any emotion after looking at a hundred pictures. AI-generated works have gradually acquired their own distinctive characteristics, causing it to change from a "very new thing" to a "bad thing on the street."
Because of excessive appreciation, the public finds it boring, and aestheticians will start to look for new and higher-level things - and this kind of innovation is the ability that AI currently lacks, so the new aesthetic direction will be led by workers in the art field. Take over the exploration again, enter commercialization after maturity, and promote it to the public.
Many people criticize that painting is dead. In fact, they only talk about it on a time scale of more than ten years. However, the fact is that even if we leave aside the avant-garde art world, in the most vulgar commercial art field, although there is a lack of huge breakthroughs, improvements and innovations It has been going on forever, but the public, as the enjoyers of the results, are at the end of the chain and often feel a little bit behind the scenes.
The emergence of new styles - popularization - improvement of public aesthetics - finding new boundaries. This process will continue to cycle. The emergence of AI only accelerates this hundred-year process to decades, or even years. That’s all.
