China Literature releases the first large-scale model of online texts, "Yuewen Miaobi", CEO Hou Xiaonan said that China Literature will fully integrate with AI

Author: Wang Yuchan

On July 19, China Literature released the first large-scale model "Yuewen Miaobi" in the domestic online literature industry and the application product "Writer Assistant Miaobi Edition" based on this large model.

Hou Xiaonan, CEO of China Literature Group, compared the significance of AIGC to writers as "upgrading from manual driving to assisted driving". He introduced that "Reading Miaobi" will save writers a lot of redundant and boring work through creative assistance such as content inspiration, scene creation, and knowledge services.

36 Krypton then experienced the "Writer Assistant Miaobi Edition". On the writer's side, after selecting the type of work (Xian Xia/Urban), gender, type (decent/villain/neutral), and label (strategy/genius/stable/kind/loyal...), enter your own general idea of the role, that is You can get AI-generated character titles, title sources, powers, appearances, personalities, skills, experience and other information.

The characters generated by AI according to the author's settings

In addition, this tool also supports the generation of work inspiration. Taking fantasy novels as an example, AI can generate information such as cultivation realm, treasures and props, monsters and beasts, and sect forces according to the author's general idea. Even fighting and scenes can generate detailed descriptions of hundreds of words based on the author's simple settings.

The faction and power relationship generated by AI according to the author's settings

The text is created by the author himself, and the box on the right is the fighting description generated by the AI-assisted author

Judging from 36 Krypton's experience, although AI can generate detailed content, it is quite insufficient in creating new ideas. For writers, it can better complete the work of searching for information and sorting out ideas, but it cannot meet the standard of directly copying the full text and presenting it to readers. It can be said that Yuewen Miaobi is a tool to assist writers in finding inspiration, and it cannot reach the level of replacing manual writing by writers.

Hou Xiaonan also made it clear at the press conference that AI is mainly to assist creation. "AIGC will not replace writers, it is the golden finger of creation, and the protagonist will always be the writer."

China Literature has high hopes for AIGC. In June of this year, China Literature launched a new round of organizational upgrading and established "four business divisions", the core of which is to "actively embrace the wave of new technologies represented by AIGC, and promote IP incubation and the improvement of the ecological chain."

Therefore, in the planning of China Literature, AIGC will not only be used to assist writers in their creation, but will also be used to improve the efficiency and productivity of IP development. Specifically, when web articles are updated in the future, they will accelerate the formation of comics, derivatives and other visual images. Hou Xiaonan said that China Literature will comprehensively explore AI applications in the development chain of audio, comics, animation, and derivatives. "In the first stage, we have applied AI to the web comics. In the past, it took about 2 hours to color a single grid, but it has been shortened to less than 1 hour." Hou Xiaonan said.

At the press conference, China Literature showed the illustrations drawn by AI for novels-it can draw people or scenes according to the author's requirements, and even draw maps for fairy tale novels with grand worldviews.

AI draws pictures according to the author's settings

The scene drawn by AI according to the author's settings

The map drawn by AI according to the author's settings

Hou Xiaonan revealed that in the future, "Reading Miaobi" will be upgraded to an open, multi-modal large-scale model, fully integrating into its creative ecology and IP ecology.

Hou Xiaonan bet on the future growth of China Literature on the two keywords of AIGC and IP ecology. "Last year, China Literature added 950,000 new works, but less than 0.5% entered IP adaptation. In the past, the development of IP in different chains such as animation and derivatives was lagging and fragmented, and it was inevitable that there would be a decline in the popularity of IP. , loss of users and loss of value.” Hou Xiaonan said.

In the planning of China Literature, multi-modal large models will be used to solve this problem. After the press conference, Hou Xiaonan accepted interviews from media including 36 Krypton, and talked about the evolution direction of "Reading Miaobi", the competition and cooperation relationship between AI and human writers, and the future plans of Reading's business divisions on AIGC, etc. and other related issues.

The following is the interview record of 36 Krypton:

**Q: In the planning of reading articles, after the AIGC tool is put into use, what kind of impact will it have on the creative cost/creative efficiency? Will we see immediate results? **

Hou Xiaonan: I have always felt that AIGC can empower writers and help them focus on the core of their creation. I believe that Writer's Assistant Magic Pen Edition can enhance the creative efficiency of writers.

In fact, writers have to do a lot of boring and tedious work in the process of searching for inspiration and collecting materials in the early stage. In the creative stage, there are often situations of stuck or lack of inspiration. We hope that AIGC can assist writers in their creation just like assisting drivers in driving, so that writers can focus more on the fun of creation and the core of the story. This is a current direction.

In the future, our large models will be gradually iterated. After the creation assistance functions are polished, they will be opened up one after another. We also hope that not only the ecosystem of China Literature can be empowered, but also the industry can be empowered. Still need to achieve continuous improvement in function.

**Q: After the closed beta, when will it be fully launched? **

Hou Xiaonan: It also depends on the effect of the internal test.

**Q: Are there any problems that cannot be solved by AI and must be solved by human writers? **

Hou Xiaonan: Everyone’s attitude towards large models and AI is changing, from extremely optimistic (thinking that AI cannot replace humans) to extremely pessimistic (thinking that AI will cause unemployment), and then tending to the mean. We hope to build "Reading Miaobi" into a large model that understands web articles and writers best, so that it can complete those tedious and repetitive tasks.

But AIGC cannot replace writers, because writers have creativity and can grasp the core of the story, which AI cannot do now. Web texts are long-term creations, and many web texts are works of more than one million or tens of millions of words, but now AI generation is still fragmented, counting hundreds or thousands of words. How the long-term context of the entire book should be structured, its direction, emotion, etc., all require the writer to make core judgments.

At present, AI is mainly used in auxiliary creation, including the setting of related characters and scene description, which can play a relatively large value.

**Q: Yu Hua said that if AI is used to write novels, it may write a mediocre novel, but it will not write a great novel. Do you think AI will be able to create "Celebrating More Than Years" or "The World" in the future? The classic? **

Hou Xiaonan: All creation is inseparable from the writer, and the writer is the foundation of the work. AI is just to improve creative efficiency and help writers have better creative inspiration.

I am still more optimistic about the cooperation between man and machine—it not only has the story core and emotion grasped by the writer, but also AI provides auxiliary tools to improve efficiency. Through the combination of the two, I myself believe that many great works will be born in the future.

AI is an irreversible wave, just like the three industrial and technological revolutions that humans have experienced. We must embrace the good opportunities brought by the technological revolution and integrate them into industrial opportunities. Just as online literature is also due to the birth of the Internet, so many excellent online literature authors have been born. With the evolution of new technologies such as AI, many future creations will also undergo related evolution around these technological revolutions. In the process of evolution, whether it is traditional literature or online literature, some new great works will be born.

**Q: Last month, China Literature launched a business upgrade. How will the entire group integrate with AI in the future? **

Hou Xiaonan: We proposed business upgrades in June, which are actually two sentences**, one is to embrace AI, and the other is to consolidate the IP ecosystem. **

**First, embrace AI. **We feel that the development of AI is a particularly important opportunity for China Literature. We just talked about a lot of applications on the TO B side, that is, the improvement of the efficiency of Wenshengwen and Wenshengtu on the creation side.

At the same time, there are also many application opportunities on the user side and TOC side. In the future, users will not only read text, but can see more combination of scene graphs and audio in text reading.

Take starting point as an example. In the past, starting point was a platform mainly for reading text. In the future, we hope that Starting Point can become a platform for text + audio + comics, and even a platform for integrated IP experience and consumption such as animation and derivatives.

This was difficult to achieve in the past because of the high requirements for creative efficiency and threshold. Now through AI tools, we can quickly insert some famous scenes into the text, quickly convert it into various emotional audio, and even form animation in the future, and quickly launch derivatives, etc.

Readers have a demand for derivatives. When users read a chapter with the strongest emotional concentration, they will hope to have more emotional connections with the work. Both cards and toys are emotional carriers. For us, there is a lot of room for commercial imagination.

In addition, on the TO C side, we also launched the function of "interacting with AI characters" in the product, allowing users to learn more details of the story by chatting with the characters in the book.

**Secondly, it is to consolidate the IP ecology. **In the past, when we reached the stage of IP adaptation, there were less than five thousandths of the works, and many good works may have been buried. This is also subject to the influence of past production capacity. Now that AI has brought about an increase in production capacity, we can turn more works into IP.

In the past few years, we have developed reading IPs such as "Celebrating More Than Years", "Zuo Son", "Douluo Dalu", "Fights Break the Sphere" and "Full-time Master". Next, we should connect different IP sectors to form an integrated development , Connecting IP from text to comics, animation, games, film and television, etc., is an important part of consolidating the IP ecology in the future.

**Q: What role does the existence of the "IP Committee" play in the IP development ecology? **

Hou Xiaonan: We have formed an internal committee with IP as the core, responsible for the top-level design of IP. For example, on the creative side, interact with early fans to co-create visual images; in the animation creation stage, work closely with partners such as Tencent Video and Station B to amplify the circle-breaking effect of animation. Also, animation and games are inherently combined. In the future, there will be many game studios in professional fields to cooperate with us. In terms of film and television, in addition to doing serial development by ourselves, we will also authorize some IP to partners.

In the past, we had a certain amount of accumulation in each single point, but now through the IP committee to connect all the lines, we will truly form a very strong IP asset in the China Literature system in the future, which can be developed for a long time and continue to develop. One is to be able to accompany the growth of a generation, and the other is to extend the life cycle of IP through cross-link IP extension. This is actually a very important value for China Literature.

**Q: Is the function of "chatting with characters in the book" currently in the testing phase? Will there be more AI functions that ordinary users can participate in in the future? **

Hou Xiaonan: Yes, the chat function is still in beta. This test will also be applied to various products of China Literature in the future. We hope that users can change from "reading stories" to "walking into stories", explore more plots, and create more emotional companionship. Because the emotional connection between many users and the protagonist is very strong, this is an attempt at the TO C level.

In terms of derivatives, we also hope to use AI tools to stimulate users to create second creations. For example, users can input some characteristics into our AI tools to generate images. After we have relatively strong supply chain capabilities, we can quickly allow users to generate their favorite derivatives.

In addition, we will also use AIGC to improve internal management and production efficiency, for example, use AI to analyze which chapters in a book are the "high ignition points" of users, and then add more interactions at this stage.

All in all, it is to consolidate the underlying large model capabilities. This year or next year, we hope to see good output in the underlying capabilities and application scenarios.

**Q: In other words, on the reading schedule, many functions will be implemented this year or next year? **

Hou Xiaonan: Yes.