If I told you, what kind of picture would you think of in the evening streets, dim street lamps and pedestrians? What if I told you that the above picture was automatically generated by AI? "I was involved in AI!" Zhang Beibei, who claimed to be an unknown little painter, sighed about the times' finance and economics. Recently, there has been an endless stream of discussions about AI painting. Even those who can't draw at all can only enter a few keywords on the AI painting platform, as short as a few seconds, to get a "painting" of their own. These "paintings" can produce direct economic value. Some people took the lead in sniffing out business opportunities: packaging and selling copyrights, co branded cultural and creative products, and making digital collections. Some users also sold tutorials on the AI painting platform, and started teaching hand in hand from the registered account. However, AI painting has also generated many disputes. Which party does the copyright belong to? Can paintings be commercially available? Will human hands be replaced? Capital also has a keen sense of smell. Time Finance and Economics has noticed that since July, domestic AI painting platforms such as Wenxinyige, Inception Master, 6pen, TIAMAT have sprung up. Among them, Wenxinyige relies on Baidu, an Internet giant, and TIAMAT was incubated by Shanghai University of Science and Technology, which just completed the angel round financing of millions of dollars in October. At the same time, there are also many derivative businesses of AI painting in e-commerce and social platforms such as Xianyu and Xiaohongshu. There are even accounts with the label of "earning hundreds or thousands of yuan a day" to attract beginners to buy tutorials. On September 3, 2022, the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference was held in the Shanghai World Expo Center. World Expo Center WAIC Metauniverse Exhibition Area. AI painting is on fire? "Don't you always learn to paint well? If AI paints well, you can learn the good parts." The voice of CG painter Wu He Qilin pushed AI painting to the forefront of public discussion. "Plagiarism" and "Inspiration Aids"... netizens have different comments on AI painting. On social media such as Weibo, Xiaohongshu, and Station B, many painters and designers have published their AI paintings and AI painting tutorials. "The painters around him concentrated on discussing more in September." Zhang Beibei, who was still learning painting by himself, clearly felt the upsurge of AI painting. Tao Ying, the interior designer, also began to explore painting with AI in September this year, and regularly produced AI paintings every week after work. Time Finance and Economics noticed that the rise of AI painting platform at home and abroad was less than a year ago. In foreign countries, platforms such as Midjournal, Disco Diffusion, and DALL · E have been born, and companies such as Meta and Google have laid out in this field. In China, Baidu is the first to launch Wenxin, and platforms such as Inception, 6pen and TIAMAT are also very popular on social media. Most of the above platforms are still free, and some charging platforms are mainly subscription based. For example, Midjournal members can be divided into two types. A monthly payment of $10 can generate 200 images, and a monthly payment of $30 can be unlimited