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Recently, on social media, we've seen all sorts of weird posts flooding websites, all praising images of cats and mice against AI. This struggle between cats and mice and AI is actually the struggle between netizens and AI. Cat and mouse vs. AI, what is the battle?
Author: Li Qiwen
Recently brushed social media, often see some strange post titles:
"I said that the cats and mice are the only T0 in this version, and no one objected, right?"
"Can this cat and mouse team still play without cutting?"
"The only true god of the cat and mouse team, do not accept rebuttals."
At first glance, it looks like a numerical discussion post for some strategy game, and I thought to myself what kind of supermodel deck this is, and after several days of discussion, did not adjust the balance? Curious in my heart, open it and take a look, huh??
There is no game, nor is it a supermodel deck, this cat and mouse team, is the most familiar cat and that mouse -
The battle they participate in is not a turn-based card battle, but a "century war" between humans and AI.
In this battle, the cat and mouse team not only showed no cowardice in the face of AI, but also defeated AI with the momentum of destruction and decay, becoming a well-deserved T0 team in the anti-AI struggle. Because there are too many famous scenes of defeating AI, some netizens have even specially made a "settlement animation" that marks the victory of the battle.
What is this "cat and mouse team"? How did Tom and Jerry run past the artificial intelligence that grew at the speed of light?
01
What exactly is the Cat and Mouse team?
To talk about the cat and mouse team, you have to start with the AI tool novelAI's post bar "novelAI bar".
novelAI is an AI tool that can generate pictures and text, which is very suitable for two-dimensional picture generation after tuning, and is favored by some ACGN enthusiasts. Since the generation of AI pictures often has certain requirements for computer hardware, to "run" out of the appropriate pictures often also need the corresponding models and keywords, many netizens will publish reference pictures in the novelAI bar, ask capable netizens to help "run" the pictures they want.
But now open novelAI, open the running map help post of netizens, and you are likely to get a question mark on your brain, because in addition to the exquisite pictures spit out by the AIS, there are also some strange things mixed in:
For example, this netizen asked everyone to run a finished product according to this picture:
The AI ran out like this, a cute beautiful girl work that is very in line with the two-dimensional impression:
But AI running map alone is not enough, and even now, there are many bar friends who feel that AI is not fast enough, such as this post, the first reply that ran out was:
At first glance, it looks very outrageous, and when you think about it, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it.
Netizens call this manual map finding practice "artificial running map", in novelAI bar, artificial running map and AI running map have formed a trend of two tigers competing with each other, and the advantages of artificial teams are even very obvious.
In the running post, the manual running map is not only popular, but also often runs faster than AI, commonly known as the "artificial team wins", bar friends even summarized a set of processes: the landlord asks, the manual running map is launched, the AI team fails miserably, and then plays the settlement animation - yes, they even have a special set of memes to celebrate the completion of the "explosive killing" by the artificial team.
How did this man-machine war begin? I flipped through the historical posts of novelAI bar and found that in the initial stage, netizens helped each other peacefully, until one day, a group of "artificial running map" netizens emerged in the post bar - since AI is a new picture generated by keywords and pictures in common, according to this logic, do humans also provide corresponding pictures?
At the beginning, the manual running picture was manually refined by some enthusiastic netizens with painting skills, and later there were more and more bar friends who manually ran the picture, and some people began to take screenshots in sources such as film and television works, and the pictures that matched the meaning of the title were handed over as the results of the manual running map.
There are more and more such replies, and even the AI running map school is incompatible, netizens call the AI running map school "AI team", and another group of artificial map running guys are also called "artificial team", and the two teams of people and horses started the century war in the novelAI bar.
After all, the understanding ability of AI drawing software is limited, and sometimes it produces some picture results where the donkey's lips are not in the horse's mouth, or because the AI cannot understand the essence of the reference picture of human input, the output picture may not be appropriate enough. However, the pictures found by the "artificial running map" often have a subtle echo of the original picture, which is very appropriate, and even much faster than the AI generation, at which point the artificial team will be judged to be victorious.
In the novelAI bar, there are many examples of the victory of the artificial team, and the artificial team "runs the picture" from various paintings, animations, videos and other image works, and gradually forms the Beechburg team, card guy team, Three Kingdoms Killing Team and other genres represented by various IP works.
Among these artificial teams, the cat and mouse team represented by cat and mouse animation screenshots is its own because of the fastest running speed and the most appropriate results, and it has almost never tasted defeat in the battle with AI, and is regarded by netizens as the "only true god" in the battle with AI.
Let's take a look at the record of the cats and mice -
This kind of diagram is simple.
Netizens have another problem:
Take out a random Jerry emoji and the Cat and Mouse team will win big.
Can strange diagrams also run?
Don't say it, there really is!
02
Why do the cats and mice beat AI so often?
The Cat and Mouse team is invincible in the battle against novelAI, which is not quite in line with our impression that AI efficiency is superb.
Open the post bar in this record building about the "tulle" AI of the cat and mouse team, and there are many outrageous cases of the cat and mouse team's power, such as this one:
Just a blue pill, there is also the text "hit the opposite XX across the screen", the AI will definitely not be able to run out, how will the cat and mouse team deal with it?
The answer is direct deciphering, which at first glance is irrelevant, and a closer look at the Cat and Mouse team wins big.
Look at this post again, the AI team sacrificed the ultimate trick, even the product logo has been taken out, the cat and mouse team can not still have a trick?
Unexpectedly, and reasonably, the Cat and Mouse team won again.
When we observe those examples of cat and mouse teams repeatedly defeating AI, it is easy to find some commonalities - when netizens raise those meme puzzles that AI cannot understand, the cat and mouse team can find the corresponding picture faster, sometimes the question and the answer do not seem to be related, but if you think about it, there is still a subtle, subtle connection that can only be understood, which is unfamiliar with artificial intelligence.
At present, many people, including many netizens who are holding meme pictures in the post bar, may stop at entering a picture or a few keywords, and then the AI will give some ridiculous, like-like picture results.
However, in fact, AI output results also require the training of various models and plugins, and in essence, the logic of AI understanding pictures is not the same as that of humans.
The subtle expressions in human eyes, the implicit social discourse, are completely unfamiliar language in the eyes of AI. The understanding mode of AI in terms of form, style, human body structure and other aspects is not exactly the same as that of humans, and it only achieves similar results through data training in shape, color, light and shadow, and cannot gain insight into the deeper content behind the picture.
For example, in this question, the picture that is difficult to copy has been created, the complex background language has been created, and the cat and mouse team still won.
The original picture comes from the classic plot scene in the anime "Magical Girl Madoka", probably only people with similar ACG concentrations can understand the logic of artificial running maps, and the AI loses unjustly.
The reason why the cat and mouse team stands out in the battle against AI is that it is obvious that the excellent cartoon of Cat and Mouse has enough episodes, and the ingenuity of the producers is rich enough, providing enough material for the cat and mouse team netizens.
But more importantly, as a classic cartoon that can contract our childhood without relying on lines, there is too much tacit understanding and resonance between it and us - this subtle psychological connection is a knowledge blind spot that AI cannot understand.
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Cat and mouse vs. AI, what is the battle?
The popularity of the cat and mouse team terrier has made more and more people pour into the novelAI bar, and even made the concentration of this normal AI post lower and lower, which caused the original AI enthusiasts in the bar to be dissatisfied.
People are curious about these animated screenshots of repeatedly defeating artificial intelligence, and they are also happy to see the cool plot of human braves defeating AI dragons. Open the novelAI bar, post the speech of the management in the top post, and helplessly express the anxiety behind the "cat and mouse" phenomenon carnival.
From the amazing battle between chess player Ke Jie and AlphaGo to ChatGPT, which has recently sparked widespread discussion, people are not only creating AI and training AI, but also beginning to feel anxious and doubtful about these creations that are growing at an alarming rate:
Can humans really harness AI? Will we who seem to be left behind by AI be replaced by AI?
The advent of AI drawing software has put a large number of low-level painters and new practitioners at risk, and these artificial intelligence models that can produce pictures at a speed that is beyond the reach of humans by devouring data are undoubtedly much more affordable than painters.
Many well-known painters with distinctive styles have also repeatedly become the material for model training, which is easily disassembled and imitated, and even after the AI spits out the picture, familiar fans can easily identify from the AI diagram which "corpses" of the artist's works are contained in the model, and the lack of ethical and legal thinking in this regard makes it difficult for painters to defend their rights.
Works by renowned artist Mai Yoneyama (left), AI work modeled on Mai Yoneyama (right)
The reason why "Cat and Mouse Team" has attracted more and more attention is that in addition to those hilarious memes and nonsensical running chart logic, the constantly emerging "human tulle AI" cool text plot is also indispensable.
Now, the cat and mouse team has changed from the code name of a cartoon hobby group to a symbol of an online cultural phenomenon, and the reply of the cat and mouse team below the AI running picture post has also become a kind of emotional venting carnival.
novelAI Tieba has divided the artificial running map separately, and people will laugh under the meme, and at the same time, in the same Tieba there is another group of people using AI tools to find new possibilities.
When we talk to our bar friends about the cat and mouse team, people no longer focus on the victory or defeat of the artificial team or the AI team, but look for an observable joyful concoction: "I watch novelAI every day now, my mood has become better, Tieba brother is first-class, and this version of the cat and mouse team is definitely T0!" ”