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　　　　　　　　At 1: 00 noon on January 24, from the Phoenix Mountain in the north of Dazhou, Dazhou City, Sichuan Province is like being immersed in a foggy bathhouse. According to the real-time data of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the AQI of Dazhou is 343, and the PM2.5 is 270, both of which are serious pollution.

　　　　　　　　After Dazhou vigorously rectified smoked bacon for half a month, the smell of bacon has disappeared in the main city, but the air pollution is still serious.

　　　　　　　　On January 4th, the local media in Dazhou published a report that smoked bacon was the main cause of smog. After online fermentation, this little-known small town in eastern Sichuan was put in public opinion. Some netizens feel that every city’s PM2.5 has its own taste, while Dazhou is bacon.

Dazhou iron and steel prospect. The Paper reporter Zhao Mengtu

　　　　　　　　The uproar of public opinion has obscured two essential questions: Why did the unknown Dazhou suddenly become a "polluted town"? What is the main cause of air pollution?

　　　　　　　　A background is unavoidable. From January 1, 2015, Dazhou began to release AQI (air quality index) and PM2.5 (fine particulate matter) data according to the new Ambient Air Quality Standard adopted in 2012. Just like looking at a demon mirror, the new standard exposes these cities that have been polluted for many years and have not been included in the evaluation system of the new standard to the public.

　　　　　　　　The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) visited and compared a number of monitoring data, and found that a key enterprise with high energy consumption and high pollution, Dazhou Iron and Steel Group (hereinafter referred to as Dagang), was hidden behind the smoke of smoked bacon, which was generally considered as the culprit of air pollution in Dazhou.

　　　　　　　　Dagang has been rooted in Dazhou for more than 50 years, and the annual tax contribution of hundreds of millions accounts for one-third of the city’s finance. However, its pollution over the years has also become a "heart disease" from the secretary of the municipal party Committee to the ordinary citizens.

　　　　　　　　If every city’s PM2.5 has its own flavor, then Dazhou is definitely not bacon flavor, but steel flavor.

Dazhou Environment Exposed under New Environmental Standards

　　　　　　　　The theory of "smoked bacon" originated from Dazhou Evening News. On January 4th, Dazhou Evening News published a report with the subtitle "Environmental protection department investigates the source of pollution, and citizens smoked bacon is the main reason", which was later reprinted by several websites.

　　　　　　　　The Paper reporter inquired about the test data released by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and found that Dazhou was heavily polluted on January 1, and the pollution continued to increase on January 2. At 8 o’clock that night, AQI soared to 471, ranking the second lowest in the country, which was a serious pollution level. At the same time, PM2.5 soared to 526 (the one-hour average of all monitoring points), and the monitoring icon was darkened, which means that the monitoring data has been off the charts (that is, beyond the range of the conventional air quality index table).

　　　　　　　　It is worth mentioning that on June 1, 2014, Dazhou began to implement the new Ambient Air Quality Standard, and the form of air quality monitoring and evaluation has entered the era of air quality index (AQI) from the era of air pollution index (API). Its biggest highlight is that three monitoring contents including PM2.5 have been added.

　　　　　　　　On December 30, 2014, the Ministry of Environmental Protection announced that from January 1, 2015, 1,436 monitoring points in 338 cities above the prefecture level in China will all carry out the monitoring of new air quality standards, and the monitoring data will be published in real time. Dazhou ranks among 338 cities.

　　　　　　　　According to public data, the air quality released by Dazhou Environmental Protection Bureau was mostly excellent or good before the new standard data was released. An official of Dazhou Environmental Protection Bureau, who asked not to be named, said that the previous monitoring of particulate matter was PM10 (that is, inhalable particulate matter), and the monitoring data obtained were ideal because of its relatively low concentration.

　　　　　　　　Zhang Yi, head of the Law and Publicity Department of Dazhou Environmental Protection Bureau, told The Paper that in order to cope with the relatively stringent new standards, many construction sites in Dazhou were required to stop work from the end of December 2014. "All law enforcement officers were out patrolling every day in those days."

　　　　　　　　The new standard looks like a mirror, exposing the environmental ills that have been hidden for many years. The day after the new standard monitoring data was released, Dazhou PM2.5 was already in off the charts.

　　　　　　　　On January 3rd, the environmental protection departments of Dazhou City and District jointly investigated the pollution sources. In a TV program, Rao Bing, deputy director and spokesperson of Dazhou Environmental Protection Bureau, made an analysis. There are three main reasons for air pollution. One is the smoke and dust emitted by pollutants from surrounding industrial enterprises, the other is the dust from road transportation and construction, and the third is the unfavorable meteorological conditions after entering winter, which makes pollutants difficult to dilute, spread and degrade. Rao Bing then added, "In addition, it is now the season of smoked bacon, and the general public does not regulate smoked bacon, which has aggravated the pollution of air quality."

　　　　　　　　However, the Dazhou Environmental Protection Bureau has always remained silent about the popular saying that "Dazhou believes that smoked bacon causes smog". Rao Bing, deputy director of the bureau, replied to the The Paper reporter that he had been interviewed by local TV stations several times and "never said that smoked bacon was the main cause of smog". In addition, he has never been interviewed on this matter, and the main reason is unknown.

　　　　　　　　Regarding why he didn’t choose to rumor, Rao Bing explained that "the more he explains, the more unclear he is."

Break the smoking stove with a hammer.

　　　　　　　　Data off the charts makes Dazhou environmental protection department "on pins and needles". "In those days, we became the Environmental Protection Bureau on the tip of our tongue, and everyone was talking about it, and we couldn’t even sleep," said a person in charge of the pollution prevention department of Dazhou Environmental Protection Bureau.

　　　　　　　　Under the pressure of public opinion, Dazhou environmental protection joint urban management and other departments began to rectify the phenomenon of illegal bacon smoking and closed a number of bacon smoking factories. In the program of local TV station, law enforcement officers smashed the smoking stoves built by some residents privately with hammers.

　　　　　　　　To this end, Dazhou has specially planned eight centralized smoked bacon points, but because of the remote location and the need to charge, there are few people. The person in charge of the pollution prevention department said frankly that this work was opposed by many citizens and was often abused. Even in the process of persuasion, a law enforcement officer clashed with the citizens and his finger was broken.

　　　　　　　　During an interview with The Paper, the person in charge pointed to a smoking floor opposite the Environmental Protection Bureau, saying that someone was smoking bacon again, and called a person in charge of Dazhou Urban Management Bureau face to face to coordinate the investigation.

　　　　　　　　On January 26th, the reporter from The Paper visited Dazhou City, but he couldn’t see the privately built smoking point, nor did he see the publicly sold smoking materials such as Boya, which were everywhere in previous years. The rectification action drove away the smell of bacon, but it did not fundamentally reverse the reality of air pollution in Dazhou.

　　　　　　　　As of January 29th, there were 18 days of severe and above pollution in Dazhou in January, including 3 days of severe pollution. The environmental protection department, which has nothing to do, can only turn to artificial rainfall. According to the data of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the air quality in Dazhou was good on January 6 and January 7, during which artificial rainfall was implemented in Dazhou.

　　　　　　　　However, after the rain cleared, AQI began to climb again and maintained heavy pollution.

　　　　　　　　According to the analysis of the officials of Dazhou Environmental Protection Bureau, smoked bacon will push up PM2.5, but the impact is not great. The air pollution in Dazhou is related to the urban population, motor vehicles and the geographical environment surrounded by mountains and poor air circulation.

A "heart disease" from official to folk

　　　　　　　　A number of officials from Dazhou Environmental Protection Bureau told The Paper that the smog weather is the result of various factors including smoked bacon, and as for the proportion of each factor, the source of pollutants needs to be analyzed. Because Dazhou does not have such hardware conditions, it is impossible to give an accurate answer.

　　　　　　　　However, the head of the Bureau’s Pollution Prevention Division told The Paper that "the main reason is industrial pollution". In Dazhou, the key industrial enterprise is Dagang, the largest high-energy and high-pollution enterprise near the main city. In fact, the air impact of Dagang on Dazhou has long been a "heart disease" from the official to the private sector.

　　　　　　　　According to public information, Dagang covers an area of nearly 2,000 mu, with more than 7,000 employees and an annual output of 3.5 million tons of pig iron. The waste gas pollutants emitted by Dagang mainly include soot, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and so on. These three pollutants are the main indicators referenced by AQI, and smoke and dust are the main monitoring objects of PM2.5

　　　　　　　　Dagang was founded in 1958, which was the era of "steel refining" in China. Dagang was the first enterprise with an annual output value of over 10 billion in Dazhou, and its tax contribution accounted for more than 50% of the city’s fiscal revenue at its peak. Many years ago, Dazhou people were proud of their work in Jinda Steel, but with the extension of the city scale, their pollution problems are increasingly causing dissatisfaction.

　　　　　　　　On the afternoon of January 25th, a reporter from The Paper came to Dagang Park in the western area of Dazhou. It is adjacent to the Zhouhe River, and there are many buildings and commercial areas nearby. The huge chimneys vomit white smoke, slowly rising into the air and gradually spreading out, which is even with the gray sky. The data shows that the air quality in Dagang area is obviously worse than that in other surrounding areas.

　　　　　　　　At present, there are 6 air quality monitoring points in Dazhou, among which Dazhou Vocational and Technical College, Municipal Environmental Monitoring Station, Municipal Center, Daxian Government Hotel and Fenghuang Community have all been incorporated into the monitoring network of the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

　　　　　　　　The monitoring point of the municipal center is next to Dagang. The multi-day data of five monitoring points show that the AQI and PM2.5 of the municipal center monitoring point are generally higher than those of other monitoring points, and show a trend of higher at night than during the day. Previously, some villagers questioned the existence of smuggling in Dagang. "White smoke comes out during the day, sometimes it turns yellow at night, and blue fire comes out of the chimney."

　　　　　　　　At 2 pm on January 25, The Paper reporter observed near the west gate of Dagang. At that time, the PM2.5 at the monitoring point of the municipal center was 203, and the PM2.5 at the other four points was below 200; At 0: 00 a.m. on January 26th, the reporter came to the same place again and obviously felt a pungent smell. A chimney in Dagang Park spewed blue flames. At this time, the PM2.5 of the municipal center monitoring point is 291, which is also higher than the other four monitoring points.

　　　　　　　　The data also showed that at 8: 00 pm on January 2, when PM2.5 was in off the charts, among the five monitoring points, the eight-hour average values of PM2.5, PM10, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and ozone at the municipal center monitoring point were higher than those at the other four monitoring points. Among them, PM2.5 is as high as 685 and PM10 is as high as 917.

　　　　　　　　In Linjiang Village, opposite the Dagang Industrial Park, a huge roar surrounded the village. A villager said that as early as a few years ago, the pollution was more serious, "every day is like shooting." Nowadays, the smoke is still very heavy. "The washed clothes are afraid to hang outside, and they have to be washed again after drying." He didn’t want to be named because his relatives worked in Dagang.

　　　　　　　　"It is also the biggest headache for us, with the most complaints every year." Zhang Yi told The Paper that last year, Dagang was fined 70,000 yuan for illegal sewage discharge.

Dagang’s sewage discharge was named by the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

　　　　　　　　An insider of Dagang told The Paper that in order to save the cost of purification equipment, there was an illegal discharge at night. However, Wang Huaiyun, chairman of Dagang Group, declined The Paper’s interview on the phone, and many staff members of Dazhou Environmental Protection Bureau also denied it. "When we went to check, all its emissions were up to standard."

　　　　　　　　In May 2010, the Ministry of Environmental Protection published a list of regions and enterprises with outstanding problems in urban sewage treatment, construction and operation of desulfurization facilities, and Dagang was among them.

　　　　　　　　According to Dazhou Evening News, on April 17, 2014, the interview team of Dazhou Environmental Protection Century Bank found near Gexi Bridge in Xiwai Town, Tongda, that a subsidiary of Dagang failed to meet the standards in the production process, resulting in serious environmental pollution. "Yellow smoke billowed into the sky, and the whole factory was shrouded in smoke".

　　　　　　　　Dazhou Environmental Protection Bureau also admitted that there is still a gap between the air near Dagang and the expectations of the public. Zhang Yi told The Paper that meeting the discharge standards does not mean that there is no pollution at all, and the environmental protection department can only deal with its illegal discharge and over-discharge.

　　　　　　　　"There is no other way except to move." Zhang Yi said.

　　　　　　　　In fact, the call for the relocation of Dagang has been around for a long time, and the surrounding villagers told The Paper that "they said they would move decades ago".

　　　　　　　　On January 11th, 2011, He Jian, then mayor of Dazhou, told reporters that in 2010, we made a very difficult decision: the newly revised Dazhou master plan decided to relocate Dazhou Iron and Steel Company from Dazhou city to industrial park in about 10 years, and to provide a clean environment for Dazhou people.

　　　　　　　　In 2013, Dazhou listed the relocation and transformation project of Dagang as one of the 25 major projects in the city, and issued the Work Plan for Promoting the Relocation and Transformation of Dagang Group.

　　　　　　　　On January 29th, a person in charge of the press department of Dagang told The Paper that the relocation plan was still "on the agenda" and the site selection had not been finalized. She said that due to the poor environment of the steel market, Dagang had a hard time, and had to rely on the support of other businesses of the group. The relocation required too much money.　 　 　　

　　Vanke held the 2023 annual performance promotion meeting online today. Zhu Jiusheng, president and CEO of Vanke Group, said at the meeting that, on the whole, the company still maintained and held the safety bottom line under the background of deep adjustment of the industry. Although the pressure on some short-term indicators, such as cash in hand and short-term debt ratio, has increased, these challenges are staged, and the company has made positive responses and received strong support from Shenzhen state-owned assets, major shareholders and financial institutions. Vanke has the confidence and ability to meet the current challenges.

　　Zhu Jiusheng also said that Shenzhen Metro, Vanke’s major shareholder, is about to complete substantial support of tens of billions, and the new sources of funds are sufficient, and the original gap will certainly be made up.

　　Zhu Jiusheng talks about financing pressure

　　When talking about the financing status, Zhu Jiusheng said that the current financing status of Vanke is still normal, objectively speaking, there is pressure, but Vanke will certainly be able to make it through. He personally feels that this challenge related to financing has three aspects: first, the challenge brought by the imbalance of development business income and expenditure; The second is the challenge brought by the change of financing mode. In the past, it was possible to withdraw money at a large amount, but now it is necessary to transfer to the project and withdraw money according to the progress of the project; The third challenge is the layout of the whole business, that is, the rate of return of the business is not enough to cover the whole state of interest climbing.

　　When talking about the financing plan, Zhu Jiusheng said that God closed a door of Vanke, and in the past, it was always the total credit financing. But it also opened two windows for Vanke. One of them is the real estate financing coordination mechanism, commonly known as the project white list. Vanke has selected more than 30 projects into the white list, and the list is still being reported. In addition, Vanke is also concerned about operating property loans. Vanke’s operating property loans increased by about 10 billion in the first three months of this year. Vanke is rich in resources and sufficient in assets for operating property loans. In the future, operating property loans will flourish.

　　Zhu Jiusheng talks about cooperation with institutions

　　Regarding the cooperation with banks, Zhu Jiusheng said that Vanke has long been a good strategic and long-term cooperative relationship with banks. Vanke has 8 short-list cooperative banks, 16 long-list cooperative banks and 26 long-term cooperative banks, which have long supported Vanke. When the industry’s downward sales decline and the return is reduced, banks are Vanke’s allies in risk prevention. He also said that before the bank loan, it was always a total credit loan, and the change of regulatory policy must turn to the project system. The mortgage model turned around overnight, with a conversion period of 1-3 years. Zhu Jiusheng mentioned that banks are concerned about three issues: where the first money flows, where the second asset items are, and whether the third cash flow and the value of goods are enough. These three questions are well answered, and the bank is definitely supportive.

　　Regarding the cooperation with insurance funds, Zhu Jiusheng said that Vanke has cooperated with many insurance companies, and the insurance funds support the company in the form of "5+1+1+…" in terms of term setting. Sometimes the choice of "+"is in the insurance funds, and sometimes in Vanke, when it is close to "+",the two sides will sit down and talk. I am especially grateful to the major insurance companies for their long-term support to the company. Long-term patient funds have made Vanke more calm and resilient in its business operations. The support of insurance funds makes the company more determined on the road of transformation.

　　Yu Liang: The market is obviously oversold in the short term.

　　Regarding the future trend of the industry, Yu Liang, Chairman of Vanke’s Board of Directors, said that it is difficult for the industry to return to the past high point, but the prospect is still broad, and the view of "oversold market" has not changed. Yu Liang pointed out that we should look at the changes in the market from a dynamic perspective. He mentioned two aspects. One is that the housing demand still exists, and the other is that the urbanization process in China is not over. He predicted that the future housing demand construction will be maintained at around 1 billion square meters, which is a relatively certain value. However, in the past year, the construction area of newly started houses in China was less than 700 million square meters, which was 59% lower than the high point in 2019. Therefore, from this point of view, Yu Liang thought that the market should be oversold, and his views on the market remained the same as before.

　　Regarding the focus of the company’s work in 2024, Zhu Jiusheng said that in 2024, the company should ensure a safe bottom line, and hope that the development business will persist in outperforming the general trend, the cash flow at the operational level will be positive, and the work of block trading and equity trading will be strengthened, and the return will reach more than 30 billion yuan. At the same time, Zhu Jiusheng proposed that the company will still firmly reduce leverage, promote the transformation of financing model, reduce interest-bearing debt by 100 billion yuan in the next two years, actively use financing tools such as operating property loans, fully integrate into the urban real estate financing coordination mechanism, and promote the transformation of financing model. The company will also promote the streamlining and high efficiency of the organization, maintain the stability of key employees, support business development, scrimp and save, and reduce management costs.

　　Regarding the downgrade of the company’s rating, Zhu Jiusheng said that the rating of Vanke by major rating companies has indeed been downgraded, but there has been no fundamental change in the company’s fundamentals. The downgrade is certainly influential, but it has no major fundamental impact. At present, it seems that the impact is relatively limited.

　　As for asset trading, Liu Xiao, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Vanke Group, said that in the future, the company will continue to promote the business model from heavy to light, and asset trading is an important path for the business from heavy to light and continuously improve its operating level. Therefore, the scale of asset trading of Vanke in 2024 will be larger than that in 2023. It is reported that the transaction amount of Vanke’s assets in 2023 was 12.3 billion yuan.

　　No dividends for the first time since listing.

　　As for the company’s dividend, according to Vanke’s 2023 annual report, no dividend will be distributed in that year, which is the first time that Vanke has not paid dividends since its listing. Zhu Xu, secretary of Vanke’s board of directors, responded that Vanke has always attached great importance to cash dividends to give back to shareholders, with a total dividend of 103 billion yuan for 31 consecutive years, with a historical average dividend rate of 33.3%, which is also 2.8 times that of Vanke’s equity financing over the years, which is what the company has always been proud of. Based on this background, it is really difficult for the board of directors to consider canceling the dividend in 2023.

　　Zhu Xu said that the current industry is still undergoing deep adjustment. In January and February, the sales performance of the top 100 real estate enterprises fell by more than 50%, and the sales of Vanke fell by more than 40%. The confidence of the whole market is still recovering, and the uncertainty of operation still exists. Based on this, Vanke also made some communication with bond investors and equity investors in advance.

　　According to Zhu Xu, Vanke investors have some differences in dividends. For example, creditor investors hope that the company will not pay dividends or reduce dividends, and keep more cash reserves to cope with the repayment of future creditor’s rights; Equity investors are divided into two categories, one is understandable, hoping that the company will not pay dividends and keep more cash reserves to ensure safe operation, and the other is hoping that the company can continue its previous dividend policy. Based on the opinions of creditor investors and equity investors, the board of directors decided to cancel the dividend in 2023 based on very in-depth discussions, so as to help the company better cope with the uncertainty in a special period and ensure operational safety. I sincerely urge investors to give the company an understanding.

　　Yu Liang voluntarily reduced his salary to 10,000 yuan before tax every month.

　　On the evening of March 28th, Vanke Group released its 2023 annual performance announcement. Under the background of losses of many listed real estate companies, Vanke Group, as the head enterprise of the industry, has not been spared. The announcement shows that in 2023, Vanke Group’s operating income was 465.74 billion yuan, down 7.6% year-on-year; The net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was 12.16 billion yuan, a decrease of 10.53 billion yuan or 46.4% compared with 22.69 billion yuan in 2022.

　　In this context, the management of Vanke Group collectively chose to reduce salary in 2023: eight directors, supervisors and senior managers who worked full-time in Vanke Group voluntarily gave up their bonuses in 2023, and the pre-tax remuneration received from Vanke Group in 2023 totaled 7.661 million yuan; The pre-tax remuneration received by four independent directors from Vanke Group in 2023 totaled RMB 1.5 million.

　　So far, the total pre-tax remuneration of Vanke Group management in 2023 has dropped to 9.16 million yuan, a decrease of 73.6% compared with 34.66 million yuan in 2022.

　　In addition, since the disclosure of the report, Chairman Yu Liang of the Board of Directors, President Zhu Jiusheng and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors have voluntarily received a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan before tax. It is worth noting that this is not the first time that the management of Vanke Group has reduced its salary. In 2021, the net profit of Vanke Group’s parent company dropped from 41.5 billion yuan to 22.5 billion yuan, a decrease of 46%. Vanke faced the third profit decline in the past 30 years. Yu Liang voluntarily gave up all his bonuses in 2021 and received a pre-tax salary of 1.547 million yuan that year. Two years later, in 2023, Yu Liang’s salary in Vanke Group dropped to 1.27 million yuan again, with a monthly salary of about 100,000 yuan.

Original dr. xibi x

Recently, I visited the little red book and accidentally brushed a video.

NBA star Kobe Bryant, wearing a monk’s robe, is religiously burning incense in a place similar to a temple. The picture is filled with smoke, and Kobe’s face is solemn, as if making a promise.

Kobe Bryant, who once threw back his jumper on the court and killed the quartet, now put down Spalding’s basketball and the feud of NBA, picked up a broom, walked through the candlestick, and cleaned up his troubles.

Little Red Book MJ: limonq

Faced with this situation, some netizens wondered, didn’t Kobe die in a plane crash on January 26, 2020? Did he fake his death, but in fact he was tired of the bustling life in Los Angeles and fled into an empty net?

If you look at the above pictures carefully, you can see a sense of alienation that does not belong to reality.

For example, Kobe swept the floor, and the proportion of the soles of his feet was extremely strange, even sweeping out six toes.

Holding the broom in his right hand is also like the first time that aliens who have taken away the earth have used non-planetary scientific and technological items.

Little Red Book MJ: limonq

Yes, the above pictures are from Midjourney, an artificial intelligence program that uses natural language to describe and generate images.

As long as I send a command to the intelligent robot on its designated webpage, for example, I enter "Greek philosopher Plato, programming on the computer, and the space presents a sense of science and technology", the robot will generate a picture for me of Plato sitting in a marble chair and playing a notebook similar to a MacBook.

Or if I type "Bronze, Mecha Core, Anime Female Character, Super Realistic Style", it will generate a comic protagonist for me.

Although it is a little rough, it takes only a few tens of seconds from the input of instructions to the drawing, and it can choose a picture to continue to optimize until the user is satisfied with the image.

This program is still evolving rapidly, because it has the learning ability of AI in the new era, and can recognize and learn the images uploaded by users for making pictures.

For example, I uploaded a classic photo of Keanu Reeves, adding China’s photography style in the 1990s, as well as elements such as farms and shepherds.

Midjourney gave me feedback on a rural version of Keanu Reeves in China.

Upload a classic photo of Jordan holding the ball and add keywords such as "highlighting muscle lines and dunking".

I got a Jordan makeup photo with a muscle explosion and fierce eyes.

And this means that Midjourney has the ability to link with reality.

Anything we can see in our daily life can become a part of virtual image capture. The moment you yawn on the subway, the moment you are in a daze at the station, and the moment you laugh and laugh in the restaurant can all be transformed into elements of an image, which can be recognized, understood and learned.

For example, a young man entered the voice and pictures of his deceased grandmother and "resurrected" an AI version of his grandmother. He repeatedly told the young man’s father not to drink and to pay attention to his health.

As described in the comment area, Midjourney’s AI technology is forming a parallel universe outside our reality.

When this ability to link with reality is used in the groups we are familiar with, it will produce an extremely absurd impression. Here, politicians become street hooligans or prisoners in jail.

Obama and Biden lost their usual seriousness and played slot machines in the arcade hall.

The rich man became a tramp begging on the street and stepped on the sewing machine of the assembly line.

Bill Gates stepped on the sewing machine

James became a plasterer on the construction site and lifted a 2-kg Shi Zhuan.

AI parallel world

Everyone has heard the story of the parallel universe more or less.

For example, the TV series The Man in the High Castle tells the story that during World War II, the Axis countries led by Germany defeated the Allies and the United States was occupied and transformed.

Similarly, in the political field, the politicians with suits and serious faces that we usually see on the news may turn their heads and smirk in the world of AI, or the situation will turn sharply and become a caged bird.

Some time ago, a series of pictures of Trump’s arrest and imprisonment were madly transmitted on the Internet.

Although Trump in the picture is smiling, he is still wearing electronic ankles.

Trump, who was all-powerful on social media, lost his proud voice channel and cleaned up the prison sewer by hand.

Former US President Barack Obama, who has stepped down, is smoking with Biden in a parallel world, and it is even difficult to tell the truth without looking at his fingers.

And if politicians are drawn mainly because of their political ideas in the parallel world of AI, then the rich are spoofed because of their wealth.

In the parallel world of AI, "the rich who become poor ghosts" is an important branch.

For example, a blogger named Xiao D in Little Red Book uploaded a post entitled "In the world of AI, let them be poor once".

Bezos, Buffett, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and other human beings who stand at the apex of human wealth have become real millionaires in slums.

In 2022, Buffett’s lunch cost $19,001,000, but in the parallel world of AI, it seems that only $10 can make this dirty old man with a tight belt eat two hot dogs and have a full meal.

In contrast to Buffett’s big belly, Bill Gates’ ribs are clearly visible. This computer genius has lost his old spirit, withered face and bamboo-like body. At first glance, he is mistaken for Gandhi who changed the front page.

In another parallel world, there is no miracle of Microsoft, only a buzzing sewing machine, spending every dusk and morning with Bill Gates.

The skinny Zuckerberg looks like a slum boy living in District 9.

The above four, who made their fortune earlier, belong to old gods, the wealth of the last century. The richest man who has become a pauper is Musk, the richest man in the new century.

Because Musk’s pictures were uploaded too much, AI learned Musk’s appearance very well, and the pictures made were extremely realistic.

Musk’s changeable identity is more than that of Martin. He sometimes spreads the cultivation techniques of Chinese cabbage in vast vegetable fields.

Sometimes I personally go to the assembly line to process parts.

There is no trace of PS in the picture of its car repair, and it is no different from a real mechanic in posture and technique.

Musk, who didn’t mix well, became a street tramp and spent all day in the alley with garbage.

However, his unruly temperament is very sharp even if he is wearing a garbage bag.

Even in the poorest villages, Musk is like a naked donor who comes to inspect.

In the parallel world of AI, it is not entirely a spoof about the above power and wealth, but also accompanied by controversy and resistance to new technologies.

Such as copyright and portrait rights.

Chris Kashtanova, the author of the comic book Dawn, almost all the contents of his new book are generated by Midjourney. The US Copyright Office believes that the images generated by artificial intelligence Midjourney are not protected by copyright.

Software such as Midjourney has been jointly sued by artists for many times.

Artists Sarah, Kelly and Kara claimed that AI drawing violated the rights of "millions of artists".

They trained their artificial intelligence tools with 5 billion pictures grabbed from the Internet "without the consent of the original artists". Artists think that Midjourney abuses the pictures captured on the Internet to improve his algorithm, which should have been part of their creation.

Carla Ortiz is famous for designing Doctor Strange.

On Kara’s Twitter, she called on artists to take a class action lawsuit and accuse them of cheating on their cultural creation rights.

And launched a fundraising campaign to protect artists from AI technology. Up to now, they have received a donation of $250,000 from their supporters.

In addition to all disputes, some people also use AI technology to resurrect the dead. They can be idols in their own hearts, such as Kobe Bryant; It can also be your deceased grandparents, grandparents, sons and daughters.

People living in the AI world

In the AI world, all the dead can be resurrected here, and Kobe is the most famous one.

On Midjourney, people hope that Kobe can live in any way. He can dance academy in an alley in Brooklyn or deliver pizza.

Or he often accompanied the ancient Buddha of Qingdeng and converted to Buddhism together with his career in Zijin Dynasty.

Kobe Bryant on Midjourney even said that he can achieve "eternal life" in some form, because the real death is being forgotten.

In the parallel world of AI, there are also thousands of ordinary people in Qian Qian who have not been forgotten and have been resurrected in the AI world.

In 2021, a trend of "dynamic photos" swept the short video platform, and video publishers used the AI technology at that time to make the photos of the deceased move and comfort the living.

Someone used this technology to help grandpa resurrect grandma. Even the animation technology, which seemed quite rough at that time, reminded the living of the time spent with the deceased.

Or help the mother "resurrect" her grandmother and let technology get through the grave.

A user lost his father when he was 6 years old, and he had never seen his father’s appearance. After seeing his "resurrected" father, he was moved.

In the comment area, this technology has aroused more people’s resonance.

Just as the theme of all science fiction movies is to discuss human nature and love, technology is not all radical and cruel crazy paranoia.

In 2008, Ye Hongmei lost her 7-year-old daughter forever in the Wenchuan earthquake. In the following 10 years, this ordinary middle-aged woman in Sichuan moved to 104 mobile phone stores, only to repair the old-fashioned slide phone with her daughter’s photo damaged in the earthquake.

But no one can repair this old-fashioned product.

In the end, the 10 software engineers who learned about this took 22 days to rewrite the program of the mobile phone, and Ye Hongmei finally saw her daughter.

And this may be the meaning of AI images.

It allows us to communicate with our deceased relatives, make virtual images link with real thoughts, make us create a cloud that belongs to us after a hundred years, and make full use of our brains to create a completely parallel world.

The era of Midjourney and AI has just arrived. Perhaps in the future, when technology is more advanced, everyone can understand and enjoy the convenience of AI.

At present, they still have some distance from ordinary people, just like at this time, an ordinary person who lost his mother is asking how to see his mother.

I hope he can get his wish in the virtual world in the future.

Design/visual Elaine

Original title: "In the world of AI, Musk is grabbing garbage with Bill Gates."

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