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In the past period of time, the once popular AI painting seems to have faded out of everyone's field of vision.

This is not to say that the ability of AI is inadequate. on the contrary, people seem to have produced some degree of PTSD to the images generated by AI. When the wave of artificial intelligence hits, those magical advanced technologies are no longer shocking. Everyone knows that AI can draw very well, and it is better to enjoy these rollover highlights of "artificial intelligence" rather than picking out details in the face of hair-level mistakes.

Play and play, AI never jokes with humans.

On February 15, domestic two-dimensional mobile game "White Night Aurora" was promoted on Weibo for suspected use of AI drawings. For a moment, everyone in the circle was worried. Although "banning the use of AI" is still the default rule in this circle, in the foreseeable future, I am afraid that more and more pictures will be generated by artificial intelligence in front of consumers, and the theory of laying off painters may no longer be empty talk.

At the same time, on another unnoticed track, AI overtook again around the corner and embarked on a path that no one had ever imagined: these decent COSER pictures were automatically generated by AI. Born from the two-dimensional cyber COSER, it began to occupy the living space of the third-dimensional COSER.

Since the widespread popularity of AI painting, the realistic style of characters has been one of the key points of AI.

In the early stage of the emergence of this emerging technology, people generally focus on the landscape art that AI is good at. Grand architecture and vast space are what AI is good at. By contrast, AI, which can not understand the composition of the human body, has produced a lot of funny and strange pictures during this period of time, leaving everyone the stereotype that "AI can't draw people."

Of course, we all know that there are two reasons for promoting scientific and technological progress, namely, laziness and astringency.

Since the emergence of AI lowered the threshold, to a certain extent, to meet the fool-style painting, then, astringency must be a compulsory course for AI in the future. Around September last year, driven by the most primitive physical desires, a group of like-minded overseas netizens formed their own community and began to study hard how to enable AI to draw real-life textured pictures while understanding human XP.

As a result, while others are still drawing simple flowers and birds with AI, their results have shaken the confidence of adult content practitioners. In January, a group of realistic-style AI images went viral on Twitter, with many passers-by chanting that it was a high-quality AI image they had never seen before, but according to the responses of relevant users, the same level of astringent pictures were piling up in their communities.

The fact that AI can draw realistic characters with such delicate strokes really scares a lot of people. These days, many media, including the Washington Post, have expressed their views. The conflict between scientific and technological progress and human ethics has become the biggest focus, and whether AI can replace adult content creators in all aspects has also become a topic of interest.

However, none of the above is the point, because this blockbuster-level topic is not discussed in China.

Of course, we can put a reason called "the aesthetic difference between the East and the West"-after all, the aesthetic difference does exist objectively-but the more crucial reason is probably the preference of the domestic AI painting circle, where the content orientation is simple and straightforward: two-dimensional.

A few years ago, there was a joke on the Internet that programmers who use two-dimensional avatars on Github are basically Chinese.

Whether the per capita second dimension of domestic programmers is still to be verified, but at least in the field of AI painting, the two dimensional population is indeed an audience group that can not be ignored.

Since AI painting was introduced into China last year, most of the pictures produced in this circle are based on two-dimensional style. in the current domestic mainstream discussion platform for AI painting, there are a large group of people trying to use the power of AI to draw strange pictures from the Internet into beautiful girls in their hearts, and most of the time, the effect of AI is quite like the same thing.

Although there is still some way to tell the true from the false, the increasingly sophisticated AI can always exceed everyone's expectations. In January this year, with the joint efforts of two-dimensional enthusiasts all over the world, the Lora model came into being, which is one step closer to the ideal two-dimensional.

Lora model is one of many AI training models. To put it simply, it is a more stylized and tagged model. Users can focus on training certain actions, scenes, roles, and even clothing details. With the blessing of the Lora model, it becomes easy to extract character features, and it is not impossible to bring the imaginary two-dimensional characters into the three-dimensional world.

It is said that the prototype is the character of "Elden Ring". It is just a pity that although the early Lora model can easily generate two-dimensional characters, the three-dimensional characters run out of AI always have an inexplicable sense of disobedience in everyone's eyes, obviously with key character characteristics, but the impression is that something is wrong.

In fact, this is also very easy to understand, it is not that the facial model is not good-looking, it is simply not in line with the aesthetics of the Chinese people. If you pick a few of the more popular "European and American faces" alone, no one will feel ugly, but from the perspective of sensibility, the taste of the Chinese people is obviously more inclined to the oriental style.

In this way, the Asian-style model will naturally become everyone's next topic. In early February, ChilloutMix (left below), an AI model based on Asian facial models, was finally released, and on this basis, a variety of Lora models such as Korean-style Korean Doll (right below) and Taiwan Doll were showcased. No matter how the final piece is made, at least it can grasp the aesthetic of the Chinese people in terms of temperament.

After getting rid of the Asian-style real-life facial model, there is a natural cyber COSPLAY. In the past week, AI COSER has broken out in all directions.

As the return of the human COSER will more or less bring some post-processing, so the unnatural feeling of AI can naturally be fooled away. If you ignore the details of the hand, AI is now strong enough to make it real. The handling of shadows and the shaping of clothing materials have always been AI's strengths, and facial expressions that AI is not good at can be explained by the so-called "frigid style."

This kind of COSER, which is composed of data and color blocks, can not only accurately grasp the most conspicuous physical features of two-dimensional characters, but also destroy people's cognition of AI drawing with their flawless figure and face. when outsiders' understanding of AI still stays on TAG to generate corresponding attributes, the pictures produced by this group of artificial intelligence are reliable enough.

3 as mentioned earlier, the controversial AI porn actress in Europe and the United States has failed to raise a topic in China, and these days the hot domestic discussion about COSER has also failed to spread to their communities.

However, the people of Japan and South Korea, who both belong to Asian aesthetics, have noticed these "cultural exports" from China.

On February 17, words such as "AI COSER" broke into popular search on Twitter in Japan, and the related discussion garnered tens of millions of views. Japanese netizens who are good at QQ are all amazed at the rapid development of AI drawing and have re-recognized the attainments and skills of the Chinese people in this field after being an eye-opener.

Most of the AI COSER pictures that shine in Japan are made by Chinese "prospecting workers". He may not know the most about AI training, but he is definitely the one who understands Asian aesthetics best. He wrote almost all the AI COS widely circulated on domestic platforms such as Weibo and bilibili a few days ago. Kanyun Gongzheng is so realistic about AI's style that bilibili mistakenly thinks it is true and moves his cyber COSER video to a special "make-up cos area".

According to Kanyun, since yesterday, his Twitter account has been followed by a number of industry bigwigs, including South Korea's top illustrator Kim Hyung-tae, and stars like Japan's top COSER Izumeng. This time, AI's ability to really attract industry leaders, so that they began to pay attention to the future of the industry.

At present, AI's practice in the field of COS is still in its infancy, the purpose of studying AI is still at the level of "Tu Yi Le", and the user community also follows the principle of open source and shares all possible new technologies. Just two days ago, the Openpose model brought by ControlNet updated the finger bones, which means that AI's handling of hand weaknesses will be a thing of the past, and it is unknown how much cyber COSER will evolve in the future.

But like the well-known AI painting, cyber COSER also has a lot of copyright risk. The AI training models mentioned above all borrow the faces of real people as a reference, including Internet celebrities and idols that people are familiar with or not familiar with. Although the authors of these models usually mark disclaimers, there is no guarantee that the technology will be used for infringing and illegal acts in the near future.

"banning in principle" means that it cannot be really banned, but maybe, as some COSER said, things are not that bad. The original intention of COSER is to get in close contact with his beloved fantasy character, which originates from his beloved profession, which is to use love to generate electricity. COSER, which can make a lot of money, does not rely solely on COS to make money, while most COSER, which does not make a lot of money, has no income at all, so there is no reason to be unemployed.

In the final analysis, cyber COSER is just a perfect fit for everyone's image of a paper man's wife, its figure will not go out of shape, its character will not change, it will never collapse, and of course, it will not exist in your real world.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag), author: Okny

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