CG boss crits the AI ​​scene! (The words are too pale, please read the picture below)

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AI and top human painters are officially fighting!

The incident originated from a declaration of war issued by Ruan Jia, a CG design "true god" who has been in the industry for 22 years on Weibo:

I’ll give you 30 minutes to use AI to compare the painting effects with me.

I saw him throwing out a fan demonstration sketch of Elden's Ring Valkyrie. The character's angle, movement and overall light and shadow have been given:

Then everyone was asked to use AI to refine this image within 30 minutes, and then compete with his painting.

Ruan Jia also emphasized:

We don’t compare creativity, thought, composition, artistic expression, etc., but the level of refinement.

Suddenly, melon-eating netizens flocked to the site.

On one side is a professional boss with countless masterpieces, and on the other side is an AI player who has been very popular recently and claims to produce a picture in 15 seconds. 30 minutes is enough time for it to go through various debugging and optimization.

△ Picture source Ruan Jia Weibo

Who will have the upper hand? It really whets everyone's appetite.

"High-end games", "AI boss battles", "the true god personally descends to earth to slay the dragon"... you can describe it any way you want.

So, what is the result?

CG art master crits AI

After Ruan Jia's challenge was released, thousands of people quickly forwarded it.

Then the prescribed half hour passed and no challenger was seen.

Why, this game is over before it even begins? (Manual dog head)

However, in view of someone’s suggestion: 30 minutes is too hasty. It’s hard to say whether everyone can see it so quickly. It takes time to open the computer and open the software...

Ruan Jia then decided to extend the time to 1 hour.

Finally, the first batch of crab eaters arrived (rubbing hands in anticipation).

However, the painting style is like this:

Even the netizen who submitted the work was shocked. The AI ​​even changed the composition, and the second picture had nothing to do with the sketch (he walked away angrily).

After Ruan Jia finished reading, she simply told everyone to take their time and not to rush , and extended the time by another hour.

Finally, more and more works have been submitted, let’s take a look.

This is the result of a netizen who “tried it out of curiosity”:

This is what netizens claim to like very much, but know that the composition has been changed:

This is what Midjourney drew:

This was generated by netizens using only one prompt word "refinement":

My own comment: "What the hell is this? I'm going to go blind."

This is what another netizen tried briefly:

'Really hard to control'

Think this is outrageous enough? Don’t worry, I haven’t touched the “bottom line” of AI yet. If you don’t believe me, take a look:

Netizens who are still venomous will say: "Jie is to ward off evil spirits."

So are our AI players really so incompetent?

That's not the case. For example, this one took a netizen 10 minutes to complete:

Everyone commented that at least the composition and character movements were not too biased.

These two were also praised by some people:

But no matter what, I can't help but take a closer look .

Feel this screen full of complaints:

All the laughter and noise came to an abrupt end after Ruan Jia announced her work on time at 2 o'clock:

Anyway, the world was quiet for a few seconds at that moment.

Humanity is victorious. Explosive killing.

What is Teacher Ruan Jia’s identity, and what is your AI status!

Yes, I guess no one here thought that the final work would look like this:

When I looked at the sketch, I thought it was as dynamic as a pounce on a wild animal , but the finished picture looks like it's floating in water, light and full of divinity (it's easy to describe).

In contrast, all the images drawn by AI are the same bright red color, as if they were carved from the same mold.

Therefore, the result of the game is clear at a glance.

What is the reality of the AI ​​painting industry?

This wave of "frontal battle" between human painters and AI did not end with Teacher Ruan's victory.

On the contrary, it has set off a larger debate, with netizens having heated discussions on how effective AI painting is and whether AI will really have an impact on the painting industry.

Regarding this man-machine painting battle, Ruan Jia first gave some of his own opinions.

The first is the original intention of launching this challenge. He said that he just wanted to experience the power of AI painting.

There are two main conclusions: first, he does not resist the advancement of AI technology. No one can stop the wheel of history, but the painters who are affected should not be insulted; second, AI painting technology is currently just like that, even if it advances rapidly , I will fight to the end.

Regarding Ruan Jia's two views, netizens have different opinions.

On the one hand, what is the strength of AI painting? As a tool, is it easy to use?

Some netizens who oppose AI painting said that as a tool, AI is not actually a powerful tool in the industry. The key is that it is too "axisy" and it is not easy to make it match human ideas.

However, some netizens said that the AI ​​painting victory was very short, and this competition was actually unreasonable. Although Ruan Jia painted very well, with perfect details and full emotional rendering, after all, he spent 30 days and only gave the AI ​​30 minutes.

In this regard, a painter blogger with millions of fans in the circle commented that this experiment does not reflect the level of ability, but the difference in thinking in painting.

AI proves that the threshold of painting lies not only in technology, but also in thinking.

On the other hand is the view on the impact of AI painting technology.

Some netizens expressed that they were so inspired that they would continue to adhere to their artistic ideals:

However, some practitioners who have entered the society said that after reading this, they become more emo when faced with reality:

Dreams must be pure, and survival requires efficiency. He can save people with dreams today, but he cannot save people who want to eat bread.

At this stage, AI cannot kill big guys like Ruan Jia and mid-to-high-end painters, but it can kill some mid-to-low-end painters, such as me.

Regardless of the outcome of this battle, Ruan Jia also admitted that AI painting has indeed brought crisis to many practitioners, and many people have already fallen in this wave.

According to Baobian, AI technology has indeed impacted a wave of talents such as UI designers and original painters, and the game industry was the first to experience this impact.

On the one hand, the demand for talents has been reduced due to efficiency improvements. A game outsourcing company in Chengdu has reduced its staff from more than 100 to more than 60 people, a decrease of more than one-third. One original artist even said that one of his former colleagues had not found a job for 8 months.

On the other hand, it is the compression of labor costs. After the emergence of AI, an icon that originally cost 200 yuan has been reduced to about 70 yuan, and the project price has been cut in half.

It may take time to determine how the painting industry will change under the impact of this wave of AI.

One More Thing

It is worth mentioning that there is currently a controversial issue in AI painting, which is copyright.

Recently, someone discovered that Xiaohongshu has created a new account nicknamed "AI Phantom Thieves" (there are also some called "AI Phantom Thieves Kidd" on other platforms).

It specifically takes away the works drawn by netizens using AI and publishes them without any warning. The slogan is very arrogant:

The resulting style is nice, and now it’s mine. You deserved to be stolen from. AI has no copyright.

Here are the three reasons why the account was established:

In response to this, many people in the comment area applauded, saying that this was "stealing to steal" and "magic to defeat magic."

So, what do you think?

Reference links:
[1]https://www.weibo.com/ruanjiacg1
[2]https://weibo.com/1711312740/MCSMbt4Nd
[3]https://finance.sina.com.cn/tech/csj/ 2023-04-21/doc-imyrcanv4786561.shtml

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