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Self-portrait photos, cute pet photos, celebrity photos... Just upload pictures on the App and you can convert them into your own specified style drawing with one click. Recently, the trend of AI painting has emerged on various social platforms.
AI painting is an AIGC (using artificial intelligence to automatically generate content) technology that has been popular recently. Some netizens admitted that the exquisite picture quality and unrestrictedness are the main reasons why it is attracted by AI technology, and users can always look forward to the next picture generated like a blind box. While
attracts a large number of users, some people are also curious about how to make money by AI paintings that have been pushed to make money? While the living space of professional painters is being squeezed, the relevant copyright issues in AI painting are also an implicit "bomb".
AI painting has become popular in the circle
Recently, topics related to "AI painting" have continued to become popular, among which "How outrageous can AI painting be" rank on the hot search list and attracted a large number of users of the Z era to try the waters.
enthusiast Xiao Qi admitted that recreating favorite film and television works and celebrity photos is a hot topic in his interest circle recently. "In the past, searching for related paintings of film and television works that I am interested in on social platforms, and often waiting for other painters to create. If the waiting time is long, the activity of the interest circle will also decrease accordingly." Now, Xiao Qi can unlock various "painting skills" according to his requirements through some free or paid services. "AI painting enriches the interactive forms of my interest circle and realizes my desire to create."
"However, although most of the paintings generated by AI are very good or interesting, they still lack the expressions that professional painters can depict." Xiao Qi said.
Top News· Henan Business Daily reporter browsed multiple software and mini programs with this function and found that AI painting is currently mainly based on C-end user experience, and it is rare to make profits by relying on commercial painting hands. There is no complete industrial chain yet.
Recently, a staff member who once made AI painting programs told the top news Henan Business Daily reporter that the AI paintings that can be exposed to on the market are roughly divided into two forms. "The more popular one is to recreate photos and original pictures; the other is to directly enter keywords and select styles to present user inspiration, that is, AI raw pictures. The original picture recreation has a comparison before and after the picture is drawn, and it is similar to the experience of opening a blind box, which is more interesting. The latter has higher technical requirements for developers, and the implementation difficulty and differentiation are greater." How to make money in
AI painting?
Top News·Henan Business Daily reporter searched for "AI Painting" in the mobile software store, and dozens of related apps were charged or free. The reporter tried to download a free app. According to the operating instructions of the software, a drawing must consume the experience value given by registration, which is about 10 experience values at a time. If there are too many people or need to wait in line, generate a drawing for about 30 seconds to 3 minutes. If you want to enjoy the queuing service, you also need to consume 10 experience values. If the gift experience value is consumed, you need to recharge. The minimum recharge amount is 5.5 yuan, and you can get 125 points.
Top News·Henan Business Daily reporters searched in WeChat , and there were more than a hundred WeChat public accounts and mini programs named "XXAI Painting". In some AI painting mini programs that are claimed to be "free", users can obtain experience values by watching advertisements and use experience values as the circulation "currency", and the development team relies on advertisements to obtain profits.
With the popularity of AIGC technology in 2022, AI painting applets and websites developed by some private studios have been launched recently. A top-ranked AI painting applet announced that it had exceeded one million users only three days after it was launched on November 18.
In addition, Baidu , Douyin , Tencent ... There are many other AI paintings in software. Among them, Douyin recently launched AI painting photo special effects, which have been used by more than 24 million people.
The "squeezed" business painters are afraid of being "substituted"
AI paintings are in full swing, while the business painters are facing the squeeze of living space.Full-time online painter Xiaolin told Top News Henan Business Daily reporter: "I obviously feel that after this technology became popular, I can receive a lot of fewer business orders." Xiaolin introduced that in addition to creating works in the circle of interest, she will receive some customer orders regularly every month and draw according to customers' customized needs. With the popularity of AI painting in the past six months, she obviously feels that handmade paintings may be "substituted".
"After years of skill training, the painters slowly explore and adjust the final style, they will be imitated and mastered by artificial intelligence in an instant. Then the role of our live painters is very limited." Xiaolin said that compared with AI technology, live painters actually cannot gain an advantage in many aspects. "Including the fineness of the painting lines, the time and cost of the draft, it is conceivable that customers will choose AI technology." Ai Wen, a college student who is part-time job in
, also has the same problem. "For business orders, we will modify them according to customer requirements, and devote time and energy. AI painting seriously squeezes the living space of ordinary painters, and some commercial resources are replaced by intelligence." The copyright issue of AI paintings has also been criticized by commercial painters. Many painters have reflected in AI paintings, and their own unique style appears. "The core part of this technology is unauthorized," Xiaolin said.
Aiwen suggested that if AI painting is already a general trend, I hope that the software can try to link with commercial painters, "For example, by paying to absorb the painting's works, if AI draws paintings with the painter style and saves them by users, you can mark the watermark and write the source, etc.."
Lawyer: Copyright maintenance related to AI painting is facing difficulties
Top News·Henan Business Daily reporter found that a certain AI drawing software page clearly reads "Intellectual property belongs to you." It is reported that AI painting technology uses certain algorithms to choose, splice, change styles, etc. based on various existing materials in the database. The ability of
AI technology to generate paintings only comes from existing works databases. So, how to determine whether AI paintings are suspected of infringement? Top News·Henan Business Daily reporter consulted Gao Yan, a lawyer at Henan LinkedIn Law Firm . Gao Yan believes that to determine whether AI painting works infringe upon, we must first consider whether they can enjoy copyright. According to the current " Copyright Law ", AI paintings cannot enjoy copyright. The works protected by the Copyright Law are original, and the authors stipulated should be natural persons and need to reflect their personal creative ideas. AI painting is a painting formed based on input conditions and calculated according to algorithmic rules. It cannot reflect creative ideas, and it is difficult for the author to define it as a natural person.
If the painting work is suspected to be infringed, how difficult is it to protect the rights? Gao Yan believes that copyright is exclusive and the copyright holder has the right to prohibit others from using their works without their permission. If the paintings created by the painter are captured and used by AI software, they need to be approved by the right holder, otherwise it will infringe the relevant copyright of the painter.
At the same time, Gao Yan believes that even if there is any infringement, the proportion of painters' works in AI paintings is difficult to distinguish. "At present, there is no provision in my country's legal system that can apply to legal issues related to AI paintings, which means that if a copyright dispute related to it occurs at this time, it will be difficult for the victim to protect his rights."
