AI fights "Cat and Mouse" and is defeated

Recently, we can see all kinds of strange posts flooding the social media. Everyone is using pictures of cats and mice to fight against AI. The target of their battle is AI. This battle between cats and mice and AI is actually a battle between netizens and AI. What is the battle between cats and mice and AI?

Recently, I have been browsing social media and often see some strange post titles:

"I said that Cat and Mouse is the only T0 in this version, no one would object, right?"

"Can this cat-and-mouse team still be played without cutting it?"

"The only true god of the Cat and Mouse Team, no objections will be accepted."

At first glance, it looked like a discussion thread about the values ​​of some strategy games. I wondered what kind of super deck this was, and why hasn’t the balance been adjusted after discussing it for several days? I opened it curiously and saw, huh? ?

There is no game, nor is it a super model deck. This cat and mouse team is the cat and mouse that everyone is most familiar with——

The battle they participated in was not a turn-based card battle, but a "war of the century" between humans and AI.

In this battle, the Cat and Mouse team not only showed no fear in the face of AI, but also defeated AI with overwhelming force, becoming the well-deserved T0 team in the fight against AI. Because there are so many famous scenes of defeating AI, some netizens even made a special "settlement animation" to mark the victory of the battle.

Who are these cat-and-mouse teams? How did Tom and Jerry outrun the artificial intelligence that is growing at the speed of light?

1. Who exactly are the Cat and Mouse Team?

To talk about the cat-and-mouse team, we have to start from the forum of the AI ​​tool novelAI, "novelAI Bar".

novelAI is an AI tool that can generate images and texts. After being adjusted, it is very suitable for generating two-dimensional images and is favored by some ACGN enthusiasts. Since generating AI images often has certain requirements for computer hardware, corresponding models and keywords are often required to "run" suitable images. Many netizens will post reference images in the novelAI forum, asking capable netizens to help "run" the images they want.

But now open novelAI and read the posts asking for help with image processing by netizens. You will probably get a question mark on your forehead, because in addition to the beautiful images produced by AI, there are also some strange things mixed in:

For example, this netizen asked everyone to run a finished product based on this picture:

This is what the AI ​​came up with, a cute girl work that fits the 2D impression very well:

But AI alone is not enough. Even now, many netizens still think that AI is not fast enough. For example, the first reply to this post is:

It seems outrageous at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, there seems to be nothing wrong.

Netizens call this method of manual image search "manual map running". In novelAI, manual map running and AI map running have become a two-tiger competition, and the advantage of the manual team is even very obvious.

In posts asking for running, manual running is not only very popular, but it is often faster than AI, commonly known as "the manual team wins big." Friends have even summarized a set of processes: the poster asks a question, manual running is initiated, the AI ​​team is defeated, and then the settlement animation is played - yes, they even have a set of special meme pictures to celebrate the manual team's "explosive kill."

How did this man-machine war begin? I looked through the history of the novelAI forum and found that in the early stages, netizens helped each other in a peaceful manner. Until one day, a group of netizens who "manually ran pictures" emerged in the forum. Since AI generates new pictures based on the common points between keywords and pictures, according to this logic, should humans also provide corresponding pictures?

In the beginning, the manual mapping was done by some enthusiastic netizens with drawing skills who manually refined it. Later, more and more friends started to do manual mapping, and some people began to take screenshots from sources such as film and television works, and submitted the pictures that met the requirements of the questions as the results of manual mapping.

There were more and more replies like this, and they even became enemies with the AI ​​map-running faction. Netizens called the AI ​​map-running faction the "AI Team", and the other group of manual map-running guys the "Manual Team". The two teams started a battle of the century in the novelAI bar.

After all, AI drawing software has limited understanding capabilities, and sometimes generates some irrelevant pictures, or because AI cannot understand the essence of the reference pictures input by humans, the output pictures may not be appropriate enough. However, the pictures found by "manual running" often have subtle echoes with the original pictures, which are very appropriate, and even much faster than AI generation. At this time, the manual team will be judged as the winner.

In the novelAI bar, there are many examples of artificial teams winning. The artificial teams "ran pictures" from various paintings, animations, videos and other image works, and gradually formed schools such as the Bikini Bottom Team, the Card Guys Team, the Three Kingdoms Kill Team, etc., which are represented by various IP works.

Among these artificial teams, the cat and mouse team represented by the Tom and Jerry animation screenshots is unique because of its fastest running speed and the most appropriate results. It has almost never been defeated 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 cat and mouse team -

This kind of picture is simple.

Netizens raised another question:

Just pick out a Jerry meme and the cat and mouse team wins big.

Can strange-shaped pictures also run?

You don’t say, it’s true!

2. Why can the cat and mouse team defeat AI repeatedly?

The cat and mouse team was invincible in the battle with novelAI, which does not quite fit our impression that AI is extremely efficient.

Open this special post about the cat and mouse team's "tulle" AI in the forum, and you will find many outrageous cases of the cat and mouse team showing off its power, such as this one:

There is only one blue pill with the words "Hit the opponent's XX through the screen" on it. The AI ​​will definitely not be able to escape. How should the cat and mouse team deal with it?

The answer is a direct deciphering, which seems irrelevant at first glance, but a closer look reveals that the cat and mouse team has won a great victory.

Let’s look at this post again. The AI ​​team has used their ultimate trick and even brought out their product logo. The cat and mouse team can’t have any more tricks up their sleeves, right?

Unexpectedly, yet reasonably, the cat and mouse team won again.

When we observe those examples where the cat and mouse team repeatedly defeats AI, it is easy to find some commonalities - when netizens raise difficult questions about memes that AI cannot understand, the cat and mouse team can find the corresponding pictures more quickly. Sometimes the questions and answers seem to be unrelated, but if you think about it carefully, there is still a subtle connection that can only be understood by the heart. This is an area that is unfamiliar to artificial intelligence.

Many people, including many netizens who post meme pictures on Tieba, may have the impression that AI outputs pictures by inputting a picture or a few keywords, and then AI gives some ridiculous, non-image-like results. However, in fact, AI outputs results, which also require the training of various models and plug-ins. In essence, the logic of AI understanding pictures is different from that of humans.

The subtle expressions and implicit social discourse in human eyes are completely unfamiliar to AI. AI’s understanding of content in terms of form, style, and human structure is also different from that of humans. It can only achieve similar results through data training on shape, color, light and shadow, but cannot see the deeper content behind the picture.

For example, in this question, even with the difficult-to-replicate picture and complex background language, the cat and mouse team still won.

The original picture comes from a classic plot scene in the anime "Puella Magi Madoka Magica". Perhaps only people with a similar concentration of ACG fans can understand the logic of manual running of the picture. It is not unfair that AI lost.

The reason why Tom and Jerry stood out in the war against AI is obviously that Tom and Jerry, an excellent cartoon, has enough episodes and the creators are creative enough to provide enough material for Tom and Jerry netizens. But more importantly, as a classic cartoon that can occupy our childhood without lines, it has too much tacit understanding and resonance with us - this subtle psychological connection is a knowledge blind spot that AI cannot understand.

3. Cat and Mouse vs. AI, what are they fighting for?

The popularity of the cat-and-mouse meme has attracted more and more people to the novelAI forum, and even the concentration of normal AI posts in this forum has become lower and lower, causing dissatisfaction among the original AI enthusiasts in the forum. People are curious about these animation screenshots that repeatedly defeat artificial intelligence, and they also like the cool plot of human heroes defeating AI dragons. Open the novelAI forum and the post manager’s statement in the pinned post expresses helplessness and the anxiety behind the carnival of the "cat-and-mouse team" phenomenon.

The debate over the superiority of AI and human intelligence has never stopped. From the stunning match between chess player Ke Jie and AlphaGo to the recent ChatGPT that has sparked widespread discussion, while people are creating and training AI, they are also beginning to feel anxious and suspicious about these creations that are growing at an astonishing rate:

Can humans really control AI? Will we, who seem to be left behind by AI, be replaced by AI?

The advent of AI drawing software has made a large number of grassroots painters and new practitioners feel insecure. These artificial intelligence models, which can produce pictures at a speed that is unattainable by humans by devouring data, are undoubtedly much more economical than painters.

The works of many well-known artists with distinctive styles have also repeatedly become materials for model training and are easily disassembled and imitated. Even after AI spits out pictures, familiar fans can easily identify from the AI ​​pictures which "fragments" of the artists' works are contained in the model. The lack of ethical and legal thinking in this regard makes it extremely difficult for artists to protect their rights.

Works by the famous artist Mai Yoneyama (left), and works by AI trained in the style of Mai Yoneyama (right)

The reason why "Cat and Mouse Team" has attracted more and more attention is not only because of those hilarious memes and nonsensical running logic, but also because of the constantly emerging "human gauze AI" cool plot.

Now, Tom and Jerry has transformed from a code name for a group of cartoon lovers to a symbol of an online cultural phenomenon. The Tom and Jerry replies under the AI ​​running picture post have also become a carnival of emotional catharsis.

The novelAI forum has a separate section for manually running pictures, and people will laugh out loud under the meme pictures. At the same time, in the same forum, there is another group of people using AI tools to find new possibilities.

When we talked about Cat and Mouse with friends, people were no longer concerned about the victory or defeat of the artificial team or the AI ​​team, but instead looked for an observable joy-enhancing agent: "I watch novelAI every day now, and my mood has improved. The forum guys are really good at making things happen. This version of Cat and Mouse is definitely T0!"

Author: Li Qiwen, everyone is a product manager intern; public account: Operation Party (id: yunyingpai666)