Eye-opening, the strongest player in the commercialization of AI painting is "Taobao merchants"

In July, the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference was held in Shanghai, and top investors and entrepreneurs went there.

Entrepreneurs complain: Invest in me, I am very strong.

Investors asked: What is your business model? What is a moat?

Entrepreneurs + investors: 2024 will be the year of AI application explosion!

When investors and entrepreneurs are still struggling to explore the business scenarios of AI, especially the business model of AI painting, Taobao stores have already started to make money!

If you want to keep up with the trend and business acumen, you have to obey these stores.

Custom character avatar, 9.9 yuan

There are many shops that provide this business. It can be said that Taobao shops are engaged in the most intense track in AI painting, and the absolute Red Sea market. The fight is completely cost-effective, and the price is directly hit to 9.9 yuan.

The store's requirements are very simple: provide a single frontal photo with a simple background, sufficient lighting, and clear facial features.

In this regard, the store will use Midjourney to first generate 4 pictures, and then the consumer will choose one. Based on this draft, the store will generate 4 drafts, and the consumer will finally choose one draft and make a deal.

When you are willing to spend 9.9 yuan to buy a service, is the consumption over? impossible. You will most likely place another order. Because the store provides a lot of styles, such as watercolor painting, Disney Pixar 3D style, sketch aesthetic style, Bubble Mart earth style... Can you not be tempted?

Figure: The picture is from the store details page

Not only that, the store also gave a lot of scenes. Since you bought a picture for yourself, you have to get a picture for your girlfriend, your parents can do it too, or you can get a picture for your pet...

Judging from the evaluations of consumers in many stores, this consumption is very addictive... If you don’t have 100 yuan, you can’t beat it at all.

AI four-dimensional production inspection color ultrasound prediction map, 9.9 yuan

This business is very new, but super popular. The store I see has monthly sales of 1000+ and evaluations of 1000+. There are also many shops that sell hundreds of dollars a month.

The production process is very simple. The consumer pays and sends the four-dimensional photo of the pregnant baby to the store during the inspection. The picture is produced in 20 minutes. The effect of the picture is probably the appearance of the baby wrapped in a small quilt when it is born in the future.

Figure: The picture is from the store details page

looks like? Some mothers said that the accuracy rate is 80%!

You can tell from the purchase reviews that mothers are crazy about playing. It may not matter whether they look like it or not, the key is fun. It is a good deal to buy a "keep up with the trend and fashion" for 9.9 yuan.

If consumers are willing, they can add another 6 yuan and get another 1-year-old prediction photo! Instantly save 4 bucks, buy it!

Intensive revision of professional photos, ranging from 20-40 yuan

The process is very simple. Give the store a passport photo or take a selfie, and the store can use AI to create three types of pictures that have been beautified, namely ordinary ID photos (20 yuan) and advanced solid-color background business photos (30 yuan) , high-end business photos with environment (40 yuan).

For each order, the store will give four finished products for consumers to choose from. However, the store said that because of the randomness of AI generation, the specified poses and gestures cannot be guaranteed.

Figure: The picture is from the store details page

This deal is definitely a bargain, highly recommended! Without further ado, I ordered a 40 yuan ticket. Think about it, if you go to an offline physical store to take pictures, 200 yuan is not too much, and it will take half a day to travel back and forth to add makeup. The key is that it is beautiful, high-end and high-end...

By the way, there is an upgraded version of this business - AI travel photography. The same selfie profile picture can be transformed into a large one in a second, and can generate beach style, forest style, simple style...

Figure: The picture is from the store details page

The store said, in fact, any style can be AI, and you can do it if you want. The subtext is: Just give the money.

This business makes me think that the offline store photography store "pill". In the future, I don't need any photo studios, wedding travel photography, etc. Direct AI to get it. Cheap and easy.

When the times abandon an industry, they will not say hello.

The picture speaks, 25 yuan

It's very simple. Give a picture, and the store will make the picture move, including blinking, shaking the head, talking... The store said that the main use scenario is to let the deceased relatives talk.

In terms of sales, not very high. However, this app is very popular on video sites, and it has been broken by netizens, especially recently, a series of Internet celebrity IPs have been released - Little Monk Talking. Their animations are very similar, but the lines are different, mainly some Zen words and philosophical quotations.

Picture: One of thousands of little monks

AI material, wallpaper, 3.9 yuan

There are also many shops that provide this business, mainly selling series of pictures in packages, which can be used for collection, viewing, or as wallpapers, such as a package of 400 pictures, and the order is directly sent to the online disk to download the address.

The content includes various AI-made material maps, such as forests, beaches, mountains, flowers, pure patterns, etc., which can be used as copyright-free commercial materials. However, the best sellers seem to be pictures of all kinds of beauties, which are a bit side-by-side, such as urban professional women, anime outfits, etc., which are said to be used as mobile phone wallpapers.

Tools + courses, prices vary

However, apart from pictures, the most popular products on Taobao are tool downloads, installation and usage tutorials. Before the AI business model is clear, the water seller has already found a business model.

In addition to the regular tool download, installation and usage tutorials such as Stable Diffusion, Taobao also has some very interesting products.

For example, sell the trained Lora model. With this model, AI painting players can produce massive pictures in a fixed style. Even customize with merchants, create pictures with personal style, create social media accounts of characters IP, etc.

In addition, there are many software products related to AI painting, such as the model dressing application specially used by Taobao stores. After buying this application, the store can put the new clothes on the hanger on the virtual model, so as to efficiently produce the goods. Detailed map. For example, AI retouching, after installation, you can realize functions such as smart cutout, one-click skin smoothing, and high-definition photos. Did you see that Taobao merchants really understand AI painting. Only unexpected, there is no AI service that consumers cannot buy.