The launch of ChatGPT at the end of November last year ignited a melee related to the field of AI such as global large models and AIGC. In the past 200 days or so, from big Internet companies to ordinary users, they have all set foot in large models, trying to seize the latest trend of technological development and achieve a "turnaround against the wind".
The anxiety of large-scale models from big manufacturers has also spread to ordinary users. On the one hand, they began to try to learn AI large-scale models, and on the other hand, they also used AI in their daily lives and work.
On social platforms such as Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and Station B, the search volume and playback volume of AI tutorial content such as ChatGPT and Wenxin Yiyan have already exceeded 1 billion.
Obviously, these social platforms have accelerated the spread of large models in third- and fourth-tier cities, allowing the use of large-scale model AI tools to penetrate from first- and second-tier cities to third- and fourth-tier cities.
Some young people have tried to start their own work with large models at home and abroad.
Third-tier small town e-commerce young people try big models
Xiao Hao is a designer of an e-commerce company in Linyi, and at the same time began to use AI tools to create some unique paintings. Cute and lovely 3D cartoon character avatars; ultra-realistic, multi-perspective AI landscape photos; cyberpunk scene paintings full of futuristic sense of technology; paper-cut art design incorporating national style...
Some time ago, Xiao Hao also used AI drawing tools to design a set of product renderings for a cross-border e-commerce company that makes furniture in Shandong.
Under normal circumstances, the birth of a set of product renderings requires multiple processes. First, draw the product plane, and then use 3DMAX to model the plan and render the picture. It usually takes two to three hours for a rendering, and it takes 5-7 days; in terms of cost, according to the price list given by Zhubajie.com, a piece of furniture renderings is about 200-300 yuan.
Xiao Hao said that the company started to get in touch with AI tools for the purpose of reducing costs and increasing efficiency, and found him under the introduction of a friend, and asked him to help produce pictures with AI tools.
"A total of about 60 different types of renderings have been generated, including scene diagrams with different details generated based on the product diagrams provided by the company, reference diagrams for various furniture style designs, promotional diagrams for factory introduction, etc." Xiaohao said, It took about two hours to complete this set of drawings.
"The company is very satisfied and believes that it can completely replace the previous renderings."
More and more small merchants in third- and fourth-tier cities value the development potential of AI painting. AI tools can not only reduce time and cost, but also avoid some infringement risks for merchants.
For Xiaohao, his use of AI tools is undergoing a transition from "innovation" to "practicability". At the beginning, he paid more attention to the innovation and uniqueness brought by AI tools, staying at the level of interest. Now, more and more companies are looking for him to do projects. "Now I have certain requirements for controllability." Xiao Hao said.
In addition to helping furniture companies use AI to draw pictures, Xiao Hao was also approached by an e-commerce brand that sells cat food.
All their previous cat pictures, due to some copyright reasons, need to be taken by themselves. Going to a pet store to rent a cat, professional pet photography, long-term shooting, retouching, etc., consume a lot of time and labor costs.
"By changing the keywords, I can change the cat's breed, shooting angle, and the cat's movements and expressions, and design exaggerated scenes and pictures to achieve an effect that is almost impossible to achieve in daily shooting. It took 3 hours."
**Using AI can not only reduce costs, but also avoid the infringement of cat pictures. **
Xiao Hao said that currently Midjourney stipulates that if you are a paying user, the copyright of the generated pictures belongs to the individual, and the platform has no copyright, but it will also involve some other infringements, which need to be avoided artificially.
"For example, if you want to generate a Doraemon or a Mickey Mouse image, because the big model must know these two cartoon images, if you use AI to generate a well-known image, then there will be a risk of image infringement, but the generated Cats are generally not at risk of copyright infringement, after all, there are so many cats in the world, if a cat is randomly generated, it cannot be exactly the same as a copyrighted cat.”
**In addition to the need to pay attention to infringement issues during the AI creation process, consistency in certain generation scenarios is another problem. **
For AI, it cannot maintain a unified style in different scenes. How to ensure that every picture you generate is the same little boy is difficult for you to control. You can only try to get as close as possible through multiple debugging. There is no way to be exactly the same. This is the limitation of current AI.
In addition, another limitation is that it does not recognize some special scenarios, or it is not involved in the pre-training process.
"Some time ago, during the Dragon Boat Festival, I wanted to use AI to generate a picture of a dragon boat, but it didn't know the dragon boat. The generated picture was a dragon, a boat was a boat, and it couldn't draw a gourd." Xiao Hao said , compared with Midjourney, domestic large-scale models such as Wenxin Yige are more accurate in recognizing this more Chinese-style scene. After optimizing these advantages, it is a good selling point for domestic large-scale models.
At present, AIGC still has a long way to go, but its advantages such as high efficiency, low cost and avoidance of infringement have won the favor of many merchants in third- and fourth-tier cities.
Youth in small towns start to make money with AI tools
Programmer Xiaofan seems to have an advanced perception of the new technology development track. After ChatGPT became popular, he wanted to use ChatGPT as a children's picture book to realize cash.
"I want to do a lot of things. When I graduated from university, I wanted to do smart home, ride-hailing and so on. Didi didn't exist at that time." Xiaofan said that these were all his ideas 10 years ago.
With the explosion of ChatGPT, the powerful capabilities demonstrated by AIGC made Xiaofan smell business opportunities again.
Xiaofan said that now ChatGPT is not as intelligent as we imagined. It can be used to write event planning and story outlines, but the answers given are too naive. Writing novels is not logical enough, but writing simple children's stories is completely sufficient.
Currently, Xiaofan's children's picture books have been launched on the Amazon platform.
In February this year, more than 200 new books signed by ChatGPT have been listed on Amazon, the world's largest book sales platform.
Brett Schickler, who works in sales in New York, USA, used AI tools such as ChatGPT to spend hours creating a children's book "Smart Little Squirrel: The Story of Saving and Investing". The book, which went on sale in January through Amazon's own website, has already earned him hundreds of dollars.
Xiaohao mentioned above is also using AI tools to produce children's picture books in addition to receiving business orders, but Xiaohao's AI picture book publication has encountered some troubles. Due to funding problems, Xiaohao's partners can only support him in a preliminary exploration. Publishing is not intended to proceed.
This AI children's picture book is a story about mythical beasts.
It took Xiao Hao an hour to complete this set of picture books from writing the outline of the story to drawing and typesetting. Although AI tools can greatly reduce time costs, there are still many problems.
"Using ChatGPT, Wenxinyiyan and other large language models can only provide a story outline, and the details inside need to be improved. In addition, after the first image of the animal is generated, if you want to control the image of the animal that appears in the next scene and the It will be very difficult for the first one to be consistent, and it will require a little bit of manual debugging, but it cannot guarantee that the style and tonality are completely consistent.” Xiaohao said that the emergence of AI tools is also lowering the threshold for painting.
In the past, creating a painting required the original artist to spend a long time exploring one direction, but now with the assistance of AI tools, works of different styles will appear in a few seconds.
On Zhihu, Bilibili, CSDN and other platforms, many netizens also shared their stories of using AI tools to create children's picture books, and there are even detailed tutorials so that Xiaobai can easily complete the picture book production in a few hours.
In the context of artificial intelligence, book production is no longer the exclusive right of professional institutions, and the book creation of ordinary users with the blessing of AI is reshaping the entire industry ecology.
Student party's new search tool
Qianqian graduated from Henan Normal University in Xinxiang in June this year, and is now applying for schools in the UK.
When applying for a school, because she forgot her email password, Qianqian needed to write an email to tell the school her new email address, so as not to miss future messages.
"Because most of the things were written by the intermediary teacher for me, I applied for this school myself, and it was not under the scope of my intermediary management, so I was super collapsed at the time, thinking about how to solve this matter, my sister told Me, they will have a fixed format, and then fill in the rest of the content by myself, and give me her ChatGPT account, this is my first contact with ChatGPT.”
"Tell ChatGPT directly what you want. It will help you set up the framework and explain the details that need attention. You can rewrite it according to your actual situation. Personally, it is better than the email sent by the intermediary teacher to the school. "Qianqian said.
Qianqian is now using ChatGPT to write emails to contact the landlord.
"Because the intermediary is too expensive, I need to find social housing on the website by myself, so I need to write an email to contact the landlord. ChatGPT has saved me a lot of time. Now I have developed the habit of checking my email three times a day."
"Convenience" is Qianqian's evaluation of AI tools. "Before, you had to ask a lot of people, check a lot of information and organize the information you can get. Now AI tools can help you organize it and ensure the fluency of the language. In our In the process of use, the main function of ChatGPT is actually more to build a framework, propose some novel ideas, and deal with some tedious text work.”
In addition to using AI to write emails, Qianqian is also doing some part-time writing of manuscripts.
Sometimes when encountering some strange text manuscripts, she will choose to use AI to build a framework, and then continue to fill in the content.
"At that time, I received an order to write a lesson plan, and I used Bing and ChatGPT to write it at the same time, but ChatGPT will give you a writing idea, and Bing will give you a fully formed lesson plan. After that, you only need to write the lesson plan. , will use Bing."
Qianqian also said that many students around her have access to large-scale model tools such as ChatGPT and Wenxinyiyan. Some students even use ChatGPT as a search engine, which has become one of the most commonly used apps in daily life.
The large model is only auxiliary, it needs to be used separately
Chen Sizhe is a graduate student at school and also an automobile R&D engineer in a company in Hefei.
The first time he came into contact with ChatGPT was in a smart social governance class. The teacher showed the use of ChatGPT to the students through a video connection with foreign friends. Chen Sizhe asked ChatGPT: What is the internal and external environment that T3 company is facing now? . But ChatGPT does not seem to know T3 company, and the specific answer has nothing to do with T3 company.
Although the first experience of ChatGPT was not good, Chen Sizhe was still "into the pit".
"I often use ChatGPT and Wenxin Yiyan. They can give accurate and quick answers to some popular science and common sense questions. I sometimes use them to help me write small papers on topics. It will help me quickly build a paper framework. There will be some novel viewpoints that can be used for reference.” Sizhe also said that although these AI tools can be used to quickly collect a large amount of academic materials, the viewpoints in it need to be carefully screened, and the source of information needs to be verified.
Not only Chen Sizhe believes that AI tools have bugs in the field of academic research, but Qianqian mentioned above also said that it is very unreliable to use ChatGPT for scientific research. When helping her teacher to prepare for scientific research, Qianqian used ChatGPT as an auxiliary background investigation, "All the references that ChatGPT gave me are fake, and I am really curious about how it can be edited like the real one. "
When asked if she would use AI tools to write a thesis, she clearly answered no.
The school’s plagiarism checking system has an AI similarity rate screening. Articles generated with AI have obvious related words and can be easily identified. Even some articles that are not written with AI will be judged as high-risk.
Qianqian’s graduation thesis got stuck in the screening of AI similarity rate. “My classmate was almost driven crazy at that time. He didn’t use ChatGPT, and he didn’t even know about ChatGPT. Some structures may be similar to those generated by AI, but in the end it was The AI is judged to be highly similar."
Qianqian finally said that the teacher often told them to use AI tools correctly and not be taken away by AI.
**After all, AI tools are crutches, not legs. **It can help us solve a lot of repetitive and cumbersome operations, but AI can't answer what it hasn't seen, just like you can't dream of something you haven't seen, human creations and thoughts, AI still can't substitute.
end:
The scope of use of large models is wider than we imagined. From a global perspective, technology giants represented by Microsoft and Google and start-ups such as OpenAI and Anthropic focus on C-end users. In China, Baidu Wenxin, Xunfei General large-scale models represented by Internet giants such as Xinghuo, Alibaba Tongyi, and Huawei Pangu focus on B-side applications.
**Large models are quickly implemented and applied in first-tier cities, and they are also beginning to take root among young people in third- and fourth-tier cities. **
It is foreseeable that the large model after the disenchantment is completed will continue to be deeply connected with people's life and work. At the same time, AI is also impacting the last imaginative territory of human beings. For us, the best way is not to wait for it to mature, but to take the initiative to understand, be familiar with and even master it, so that we can become the driver of AI and ensure that we will not be left behind by the times.
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Large-scale models "rush" to young people in third- and fourth-tier cities
Source: Xinzhai Business Review, Author: Xin Yi
The launch of ChatGPT at the end of November last year ignited a melee related to the field of AI such as global large models and AIGC. In the past 200 days or so, from big Internet companies to ordinary users, they have all set foot in large models, trying to seize the latest trend of technological development and achieve a "turnaround against the wind".
The anxiety of large-scale models from big manufacturers has also spread to ordinary users. On the one hand, they began to try to learn AI large-scale models, and on the other hand, they also used AI in their daily lives and work.
On social platforms such as Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and Station B, the search volume and playback volume of AI tutorial content such as ChatGPT and Wenxin Yiyan have already exceeded 1 billion.
Obviously, these social platforms have accelerated the spread of large models in third- and fourth-tier cities, allowing the use of large-scale model AI tools to penetrate from first- and second-tier cities to third- and fourth-tier cities.
Some young people have tried to start their own work with large models at home and abroad.
Third-tier small town e-commerce young people try big models
Xiao Hao is a designer of an e-commerce company in Linyi, and at the same time began to use AI tools to create some unique paintings. Cute and lovely 3D cartoon character avatars; ultra-realistic, multi-perspective AI landscape photos; cyberpunk scene paintings full of futuristic sense of technology; paper-cut art design incorporating national style...
Some time ago, Xiao Hao also used AI drawing tools to design a set of product renderings for a cross-border e-commerce company that makes furniture in Shandong.
Under normal circumstances, the birth of a set of product renderings requires multiple processes. First, draw the product plane, and then use 3DMAX to model the plan and render the picture. It usually takes two to three hours for a rendering, and it takes 5-7 days; in terms of cost, according to the price list given by Zhubajie.com, a piece of furniture renderings is about 200-300 yuan.
Xiao Hao said that the company started to get in touch with AI tools for the purpose of reducing costs and increasing efficiency, and found him under the introduction of a friend, and asked him to help produce pictures with AI tools.
"A total of about 60 different types of renderings have been generated, including scene diagrams with different details generated based on the product diagrams provided by the company, reference diagrams for various furniture style designs, promotional diagrams for factory introduction, etc." Xiaohao said, It took about two hours to complete this set of drawings.
"The company is very satisfied and believes that it can completely replace the previous renderings."
More and more small merchants in third- and fourth-tier cities value the development potential of AI painting. AI tools can not only reduce time and cost, but also avoid some infringement risks for merchants.
For Xiaohao, his use of AI tools is undergoing a transition from "innovation" to "practicability". At the beginning, he paid more attention to the innovation and uniqueness brought by AI tools, staying at the level of interest. Now, more and more companies are looking for him to do projects. "Now I have certain requirements for controllability." Xiao Hao said.
In addition to helping furniture companies use AI to draw pictures, Xiao Hao was also approached by an e-commerce brand that sells cat food.
All their previous cat pictures, due to some copyright reasons, need to be taken by themselves. Going to a pet store to rent a cat, professional pet photography, long-term shooting, retouching, etc., consume a lot of time and labor costs.
"By changing the keywords, I can change the cat's breed, shooting angle, and the cat's movements and expressions, and design exaggerated scenes and pictures to achieve an effect that is almost impossible to achieve in daily shooting. It took 3 hours."
**Using AI can not only reduce costs, but also avoid the infringement of cat pictures. **
Xiao Hao said that currently Midjourney stipulates that if you are a paying user, the copyright of the generated pictures belongs to the individual, and the platform has no copyright, but it will also involve some other infringements, which need to be avoided artificially.
"For example, if you want to generate a Doraemon or a Mickey Mouse image, because the big model must know these two cartoon images, if you use AI to generate a well-known image, then there will be a risk of image infringement, but the generated Cats are generally not at risk of copyright infringement, after all, there are so many cats in the world, if a cat is randomly generated, it cannot be exactly the same as a copyrighted cat.”
**In addition to the need to pay attention to infringement issues during the AI creation process, consistency in certain generation scenarios is another problem. **
For AI, it cannot maintain a unified style in different scenes. How to ensure that every picture you generate is the same little boy is difficult for you to control. You can only try to get as close as possible through multiple debugging. There is no way to be exactly the same. This is the limitation of current AI.
In addition, another limitation is that it does not recognize some special scenarios, or it is not involved in the pre-training process.
"Some time ago, during the Dragon Boat Festival, I wanted to use AI to generate a picture of a dragon boat, but it didn't know the dragon boat. The generated picture was a dragon, a boat was a boat, and it couldn't draw a gourd." Xiao Hao said , compared with Midjourney, domestic large-scale models such as Wenxin Yige are more accurate in recognizing this more Chinese-style scene. After optimizing these advantages, it is a good selling point for domestic large-scale models.
At present, AIGC still has a long way to go, but its advantages such as high efficiency, low cost and avoidance of infringement have won the favor of many merchants in third- and fourth-tier cities.
Youth in small towns start to make money with AI tools
Programmer Xiaofan seems to have an advanced perception of the new technology development track. After ChatGPT became popular, he wanted to use ChatGPT as a children's picture book to realize cash.
"I want to do a lot of things. When I graduated from university, I wanted to do smart home, ride-hailing and so on. Didi didn't exist at that time." Xiaofan said that these were all his ideas 10 years ago.
With the explosion of ChatGPT, the powerful capabilities demonstrated by AIGC made Xiaofan smell business opportunities again.
Xiaofan said that now ChatGPT is not as intelligent as we imagined. It can be used to write event planning and story outlines, but the answers given are too naive. Writing novels is not logical enough, but writing simple children's stories is completely sufficient.
Currently, Xiaofan's children's picture books have been launched on the Amazon platform.
In February this year, more than 200 new books signed by ChatGPT have been listed on Amazon, the world's largest book sales platform.
Brett Schickler, who works in sales in New York, USA, used AI tools such as ChatGPT to spend hours creating a children's book "Smart Little Squirrel: The Story of Saving and Investing". The book, which went on sale in January through Amazon's own website, has already earned him hundreds of dollars.
Xiaohao mentioned above is also using AI tools to produce children's picture books in addition to receiving business orders, but Xiaohao's AI picture book publication has encountered some troubles. Due to funding problems, Xiaohao's partners can only support him in a preliminary exploration. Publishing is not intended to proceed.
This AI children's picture book is a story about mythical beasts.
It took Xiao Hao an hour to complete this set of picture books from writing the outline of the story to drawing and typesetting. Although AI tools can greatly reduce time costs, there are still many problems.
"Using ChatGPT, Wenxinyiyan and other large language models can only provide a story outline, and the details inside need to be improved. In addition, after the first image of the animal is generated, if you want to control the image of the animal that appears in the next scene and the It will be very difficult for the first one to be consistent, and it will require a little bit of manual debugging, but it cannot guarantee that the style and tonality are completely consistent.” Xiaohao said that the emergence of AI tools is also lowering the threshold for painting.
In the past, creating a painting required the original artist to spend a long time exploring one direction, but now with the assistance of AI tools, works of different styles will appear in a few seconds.
On Zhihu, Bilibili, CSDN and other platforms, many netizens also shared their stories of using AI tools to create children's picture books, and there are even detailed tutorials so that Xiaobai can easily complete the picture book production in a few hours.
In the context of artificial intelligence, book production is no longer the exclusive right of professional institutions, and the book creation of ordinary users with the blessing of AI is reshaping the entire industry ecology.
Student party's new search tool
Qianqian graduated from Henan Normal University in Xinxiang in June this year, and is now applying for schools in the UK.
When applying for a school, because she forgot her email password, Qianqian needed to write an email to tell the school her new email address, so as not to miss future messages.
"Because most of the things were written by the intermediary teacher for me, I applied for this school myself, and it was not under the scope of my intermediary management, so I was super collapsed at the time, thinking about how to solve this matter, my sister told Me, they will have a fixed format, and then fill in the rest of the content by myself, and give me her ChatGPT account, this is my first contact with ChatGPT.”
"Tell ChatGPT directly what you want. It will help you set up the framework and explain the details that need attention. You can rewrite it according to your actual situation. Personally, it is better than the email sent by the intermediary teacher to the school. "Qianqian said.
Qianqian is now using ChatGPT to write emails to contact the landlord.
"Because the intermediary is too expensive, I need to find social housing on the website by myself, so I need to write an email to contact the landlord. ChatGPT has saved me a lot of time. Now I have developed the habit of checking my email three times a day."
"Convenience" is Qianqian's evaluation of AI tools. "Before, you had to ask a lot of people, check a lot of information and organize the information you can get. Now AI tools can help you organize it and ensure the fluency of the language. In our In the process of use, the main function of ChatGPT is actually more to build a framework, propose some novel ideas, and deal with some tedious text work.”
In addition to using AI to write emails, Qianqian is also doing some part-time writing of manuscripts.
Sometimes when encountering some strange text manuscripts, she will choose to use AI to build a framework, and then continue to fill in the content.
"At that time, I received an order to write a lesson plan, and I used Bing and ChatGPT to write it at the same time, but ChatGPT will give you a writing idea, and Bing will give you a fully formed lesson plan. After that, you only need to write the lesson plan. , will use Bing."
Qianqian also said that many students around her have access to large-scale model tools such as ChatGPT and Wenxinyiyan. Some students even use ChatGPT as a search engine, which has become one of the most commonly used apps in daily life.
The large model is only auxiliary, it needs to be used separately
Chen Sizhe is a graduate student at school and also an automobile R&D engineer in a company in Hefei.
The first time he came into contact with ChatGPT was in a smart social governance class. The teacher showed the use of ChatGPT to the students through a video connection with foreign friends. Chen Sizhe asked ChatGPT: What is the internal and external environment that T3 company is facing now? . But ChatGPT does not seem to know T3 company, and the specific answer has nothing to do with T3 company.
Although the first experience of ChatGPT was not good, Chen Sizhe was still "into the pit".
"I often use ChatGPT and Wenxin Yiyan. They can give accurate and quick answers to some popular science and common sense questions. I sometimes use them to help me write small papers on topics. It will help me quickly build a paper framework. There will be some novel viewpoints that can be used for reference.” Sizhe also said that although these AI tools can be used to quickly collect a large amount of academic materials, the viewpoints in it need to be carefully screened, and the source of information needs to be verified.
Not only Chen Sizhe believes that AI tools have bugs in the field of academic research, but Qianqian mentioned above also said that it is very unreliable to use ChatGPT for scientific research. When helping her teacher to prepare for scientific research, Qianqian used ChatGPT as an auxiliary background investigation, "All the references that ChatGPT gave me are fake, and I am really curious about how it can be edited like the real one. "
When asked if she would use AI tools to write a thesis, she clearly answered no.
The school’s plagiarism checking system has an AI similarity rate screening. Articles generated with AI have obvious related words and can be easily identified. Even some articles that are not written with AI will be judged as high-risk.
Qianqian’s graduation thesis got stuck in the screening of AI similarity rate. “My classmate was almost driven crazy at that time. He didn’t use ChatGPT, and he didn’t even know about ChatGPT. Some structures may be similar to those generated by AI, but in the end it was The AI is judged to be highly similar."
Qianqian finally said that the teacher often told them to use AI tools correctly and not be taken away by AI.
**After all, AI tools are crutches, not legs. **It can help us solve a lot of repetitive and cumbersome operations, but AI can't answer what it hasn't seen, just like you can't dream of something you haven't seen, human creations and thoughts, AI still can't substitute.
end:
The scope of use of large models is wider than we imagined. From a global perspective, technology giants represented by Microsoft and Google and start-ups such as OpenAI and Anthropic focus on C-end users. In China, Baidu Wenxin, Xunfei General large-scale models represented by Internet giants such as Xinghuo, Alibaba Tongyi, and Huawei Pangu focus on B-side applications.
**Large models are quickly implemented and applied in first-tier cities, and they are also beginning to take root among young people in third- and fourth-tier cities. **
It is foreseeable that the large model after the disenchantment is completed will continue to be deeply connected with people's life and work. At the same time, AI is also impacting the last imaginative territory of human beings. For us, the best way is not to wait for it to mature, but to take the initiative to understand, be familiar with and even master it, so that we can become the driver of AI and ensure that we will not be left behind by the times.