Friday, April 4, 2025

生成技術的今天與未來

 上篇在Facebook


發文既沒有論文形式,驗證還用了沒有人性生成的形式,沒有任何說服力🤔。最近的熱烈討論,OpenAI推出了吉普力工作室的風格濾鏡,人類史上最強的濾鏡功能,借題發揮了心得。特此附上具備真實意義的符合傳統道德標準開發的純個人圖形模型的訓練過程。因為自己的照片多數是風景,模型生成的自然風景也捕捉了個人風格與偏好。低分辨率沒有加工的。


宮崎駿與 OpenAI (美國公司)


OpenAI 兩年內累積的使用者數量已接近宮崎駿,都高達數億人,但兩者的起點與發展模式截然不同。


面向使用者:

兩者皆直接面向終端使用者。


使用者付費動機:

宮崎駿仰賴視覺藝術與引人入勝的故事情節。

OpenAI 則依賴科技與網路內容的全面訓練(包含宮崎駿的作品),提供圖文生成、無廣告的高級搜尋以及互動體驗。


盈利模式:

宮崎駿的盈利模式為一次性,主要依靠每三年推出一部全新的電影,並銷售周邊商品。

OpenAI 則採用每月 20 美金的訂閱制。


內容取代性:

宮崎駿的形象價值是永續且難以取代的,但其商業模式缺乏持續性,除非不斷推出新作品。

OpenAI 建立的是品牌認知度,其提供的服務若有更優秀的替代方案出現,便會立即被取代。


技術取代性:

宮崎駿的作品,技術取代性極低,因為作品融入了過多個人主觀價值,且技術與其個人風格緊密結合。

OpenAI 技術本身的優勢有限,例如 Deepseek 等公司正在縮小技術差距,但 AI 技術仍需要巨量的人力進行通識標籤與專業標籤。在這方面,OpenAI 的巨量資金不僅在訓練與提供服務上有一定的防護,在服務的完整度上也因為人力資源保持一定優勢。


品牌形象價值:

宮崎駿的形象價值在當代社會體系中不易轉換為實質的商業利益。

OpenAI 的品牌價值,建立在技術突破與資金能直接創造的品牌效應之上,因此經濟實力強盛也能持續保持競爭優勢,但也因此建立起不同的道德標準。


動機:

宮崎駿終其一生是以人為本的創意啟發。

OpenAI 的目標是創造 AGI(通用人工智慧),雖然目前僅有數年時間,但其動機受到各方質疑。


產出內容與法律:

宮崎駿的最終作品,從形象到故事與呈現方式都全面受到法律認可與保護,是成熟的認知與社會價值吻合的形式。

OpenAI 產出的內容仍存在爭議,因為 OpenAI 並未擁有任何原生訓練內容,而是直接訓練全網內容,目前生成內容仍不受到法律保護,除了中國地區,在 2023 年的一個法律訴訟,只要有人為互動,即可自動擁有著作權保護的生成內容。


製作過程的道德與法律:

宮崎駿在員工對待上嚴苛,但整體來說普遍受到敬重,沒有牽涉到任何可能觸犯法律的問題。

OpenAI 未經許可擅自決定訓練全網內容,並偏重高品質內容的輸出,目前正有相當數量的訴訟案件同時發生。


YouTube 的啟示:

YouTube 的崛起受益於盜版內容吸引用戶,如今 OpenAI 採用了同樣未清晰界定的方式,利用全網的知識與藝術內容來生成產出,以擴大用戶規模。YouTube 最終造福了許多人,而 OpenAI 的發展方向仍有待觀察。


2025/04/04 特此紀錄,20年後回顧,我們也會像當初2005,看著社交媒體漸漸擁有我們個人訊息與資料及動向一般。

Monday, December 26, 2022

Real or Virtual

Rarely encourage people to against their own will but Anti-Image Generation(AI) could be one of the activities in the our creative world that might harm everyone in the end! Due to majority of the copyright benefits are operated by large corporations. George Lucas had tried to express it in his star wars movies while he was independently outside of Hollywood system which is incredibly difficult and I admire it! The anti-AI  reminds how people VOTE the power to the Dark Lord of the Sith voluntarily, although in the end even George Lucas can not avoid large corporations because Disney acquired his studio. At the moment it got acquired, the old spirit might had faded away.

The absolutely scary thing is what seems right and doing the justice at this moment could help the negative part hunting us in the end.

The definition of art is still evolving just like it has always been.


About the application of image generation, one is a photo I took with ISO 102400 which was impossible before 2010-2015, and below is a Stable Diffusion 2.1 reproduction which is not possible before 2016-2021. 


Image Generation (AI ) is NOT AI since it is a technology about Latend Diffusion (Clip+Diffusion), the dataset is by Human, trained by Human, operating the output by human instruction. It is about educating that we do not harm individual’s spirit not about stopping ALL the development. 

I always hope one day either public domain or creative common are the common goal and solution for majority society. Since only large corporations can afford to take advantage of copyright when it comes down to the cost of involvement of protecting their own pieces.




 










Sunday, November 29, 2020

Staghorn Fern

 Staghorn fern was originally a sketching tutorial, demonstrating how to use iPad to draw still life, but I liked the sketches of the demonstration process, and decided to spend two more hours to improve the degree of completion.


Painting includes several aspects, 1. Descriptive ability, 2. Balance and harmony, 3. Emotional expression and message transmission, 4. Originality and influence. Most aspects about learning painting about Descriptive Ability, from calligraphy to sketching, anatomy, color, perspective are all about acquiring descriptive ability. Many contemporary art skips the study of description ability and balance and harmony, which will lead to a huge gap between the artists and the audience. The same problem exists in Manga or Anime. Learning appearance is important, but describing things really requires more understanding of the true nature. Execution after understanding the essence hugely impact the learning curve.




Friday, September 21, 2018

Disbelieve of anything and everything?

If we can not fully understand and explain the most fundamental particles, any system builded on top could be questionable, such as any applied science.
If we can not fully trust people's speech who are still live today, how can we trust someone who had passed away from 2000 years ago, and messages who brought to us. Things build on top of these messages could be questionable.

Thus, people could get isolated due to there is so few common languages, belief, and connection.


Wednesday, September 6, 2017

2 paintings from iPad

A landscape painting from life with iPad by Jason Juan

Treasure Island Cover on iPad by Jason Juan

A movie poster I did recently.

Murrieta Poster by Jason Juan

A movie poster recently I did for Todd Myers' movie. The story happened in East Bay, around my current office. It is about Mexican and American's conflicts in 19th century. 

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

One can be austere if he has no desires.

Standing on the shoulders of giants and showing the way for those to come. One can be austere if he has no desires.


Repost from an old post.

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Art and Timeless

How do we know when a piece is truly art and good? We know it because it is timeless. This is a Play Station advertisement called "Mountain" Do we say it is Sony did it? or the director did it? or it is really the music? or it is the camera angle or it is the person had the original idea? or it is the Play Station creator? or it is the person funded the project? Maybe it is the FX company? Or it is all the actors in the shot? or it is the person did the marketing channel and successfully launched it? Or it is really the Youtube so we still can see it easily?


https://youtu.be/xRwgdZxYL-E