This director is vindictive.

Chapter 437 Chen Mo, where did my AI go?

To be honest, the key word Chen Mo mentioned for this year's 814 Welfare Festival was AI, partly because he was being a bit lazy.

Don't be fooled by the fact that the super-generous live stream only lasts a few hours; it can actually be quite exhausting. So, since it's the year of AI, let's create a "clone" and have some fun with it.

As for Welfare Week, AI love letters?

To be honest, AI isn't very useful! Of course, it can be useful if you can't write love letters.

To the surprise of many, as August approaches, the 814 Welfare Festival is just around the corner, and Welfare Week is even closer. As Chen Mo previously mentioned, the keyword for this year's Welfare Festival is AI.

Several major domestic manufacturers and overseas AI companies were dumbfounded because Chen Mo had not reached a strategic cooperation agreement with any of them.

Netizens were also completely baffled.

I have absolutely no idea what Chen Mo is up to.
"Is this just a smokescreen? And the AI ​​has nothing to do with it at all?"

"The case is solved. The truth is, Chen Mo wanted to develop AI himself?"

"You think AI is as easy as cabbage? You can't just start doing it like that?"

"Upstairs, do you think AI isn't as common as cabbage? These AI software programs in China are basically just integrated search engines. Do you really think that's some amazing technology? Anyway, the only use I get from those AI software programs is that I don't need to open a browser anymore."

"Now that you mention it, it seems... it might actually be possible?"

It's not just netizens who have this suspicion; in fact, the companies that wanted to cooperate also thought so.

Even Lei Jun, the CEO of Xiaomi, couldn't help but call Chen Mo to inquire.

"So, you're planning to develop AI yourself?" Lei Jun asked.

"What do I know about AI? I'm just a moviemaker!" Chen Mo was completely bewildered.

"Then why haven't you finalized a partner yet, with the 814 Welfare Festival just around the corner?" Lei Jun asked.

"Because there's absolutely no need for it!" Chen Mo said with a smile.

"What do you mean? You're not trying to fool everyone, are you?" Lei Busi looked completely bewildered.

"No, not really. I can reveal a little bit. The keyword is indeed AI, but that's what I plan to use for the super welfare live stream. That's all. The technical requirements aren't that high. I've already commissioned a custom project," Chen Mo said.

"You..." Leibusi was both amused and exasperated.

Because he felt that everyone had really been fooled by Chen Mo, but Chen Mo wasn't wrong. According to him, the super welfare live broadcast would use AI, so it seemed that there was nothing wrong with that.

After all, the "814 Welfare Festival" and "Welfare Week" were originally not included at all; they referred to the super welfare live broadcast on the night of August 814th.

While the Super Welfare Livestream has a large exposure, it actually only lasts for a few hours.

The influence is significant enough, but while it's not entirely ineffective in promoting AI, it's certainly not as effective as the Welfare Week.

"However, we can't say it's unrelated to AI. AI will still play a role in the future. Just wait and see!" Chen Mo said after thinking for a moment.

August 7th arrived quickly.

As is customary in previous years, the welfare week activities of the 814 Welfare Festival are about to begin.

That evening, the highly anticipated 814 Welfare Week officially kicked off. Chen Mo launched the nationwide love letter writing campaign themed "Short Letters, Long Feelings" as promised.

However, the rules left countless netizens dumbfounded.

"In the past, carriages, horses, and mail were too slow; one's lifetime was only enough to love one person."

In the past, life was slow, so slow that even carriages and mail could not bear the weight of longing; a lifetime was only enough to carefully depict a heart as a love letter.

This year's Welfare Week, let's go back to the old days.

Pick up your old fountain pen again and write down the romance of this era.

"A Short Letter, Deep Affection" Activity Rules:
In the past, travel was slow, and a love letter might take several years to arrive, yet every word was imbued with the weight of longing. Now, we are pushed along by the fast pace of life, and even "I love you" has become a fleeting bubble in WeChat messages.

This August 814th, we want you to slow down—pick up a pen and write a love letter: dig out the dusty fountain pen from your drawer, or go to a stationery store to buy a piece of vintage letter paper (we recommend yellowed Xuan paper or kraft paper), and write a three-line love letter to your loved one by hand.

(Example: The first line describes the initial attraction, the second the tenderness found in everyday life, and the third the hopes for the future. Correction fluid is allowed; wrinkles and ink stains are badges of romance.)
AI-Assisted Romance: If you're struggling to remember what you've written, you can use the AI ​​Love Letter Generator. Enter keywords from your story (such as "the umbrella at the subway station" or "her burnt tomato and egg"), and the AI ​​will help you turn your memories into poetry—but you must copy it by hand!

Take photos of love letters, enter the platforms that partner with the "Welfare Week" such as Douyin and Weibo, choose a brand as your team, and upload photos of your handwritten love letters or the love letters you have received.

You will receive a corresponding "Retro Romance Gift Pack" provided by the brand!
Special Episode: Fountain pens may rust, but love should not be oxidized by time!
In the era of fountain pens and letter paper, love letters were a unique form of romance for that generation.

Uncover the dusty box of memories, take out those yellowed letters, and let the young people feel the deep affection conveyed in those short letters by the older generation. Tell them about your love back then!
Write another long-awaited love letter to that special someone!

Every love letter will receive a bonus!
The accompanying image shows a close-up of a yellowed love letter from the last century on the left, and an AR animation generated by young people scanning the love letter with their mobile phones on the right. In the middle, ink dripping from the nib of a fountain pen separates the two eras!
Bonus surprise: 100 handwritten love letters will be randomly selected, and the event organizers will use calligraphy copying techniques to replicate them, along with the recipient's childhood photos, to create a "time capsule" and send it back to the recipient.

And it will be shown during the super bonus live stream that night!
The announcement of the event caused an uproar online.

The main point is that Chen Mo previously mentioned that the keyword for this year's Welfare Festival was AI, so everyone naturally started to look forward to the long-awaited AI drama. However, no one expected that Chen Mo would just give a false alarm, and the core of the event would actually be writing love letters.
And the fact that the love letters had to be handwritten is just outrageous!

This is quite different from the cool AI applications that people imagine (such as AI-generated art, intelligent interaction, and deep personalized recommendations).

People repeatedly refreshed the event page, looking for specific manifestations of the "AI" element, only to be astonished to find that the presence of AI seemed... ridiculously low! The core of the event was "writing love letters," emphasizing the emotional value of "handwritten" writing and encouraging the use of retro letter paper and fountain pens.

As for AI, although the activity suggests that those who can't write can use AI's love letter writing function to help generate some simple sweet words or provide love letter templates, the overall technical content is extremely low, even inferior to some free love quote generation mini-programs.

The event announcement only briefly mentioned that "this event incorporates AI elements to add inspiration to your confession," but where exactly is it "integrated"? Compared to the various cutting-edge technologies showcased by CEOs of major AI companies in the Maldives (AI-generated underwater starry sky, emotion analysis robots, intelligent spicy snack whale shark dolls, etc.), the presence of "AI" in this event is so meager that it seems like a smokescreen before the competition even begins.

"That's it? Good heavens, this is unbelievable! What happened to the cutting-edge AI technology? Suddenly, all the technology is gone, and we've gone back to the era of letters?"

"Where's my AI??? Where's my AI???"

"Where's the game-changing weapon of the AI ​​era that was promised?"

"Got it! The core AI technology of 'A Short Letter, A Long Love' is called 'copy and paste'—sharing Chen Mo's library of cheesy pickup lines for us to copy!"

"Does 'AI' mean that the event planners' 'Artificial Intelligence' has finally been activated? After all, they're finally leaving finance behind..."

"No, so the AI ​​on Chen Mo's Weibo is actually the pinyin for 'love'? And not the AI ​​we understand?"

Chen Mo: AI is like a brick; you can move it wherever it's needed (and stuff it into the last line of the event announcement). Netizens: Where's the brick???

"CEOs of major AI companies: ??? We took our latest fighter jet to the Maldives for an exhibition, and all you did was disassemble two parts and assemble a toy water gun to fool the netizens?"

"Could it be... that the AI ​​benefits Mr. Chen mentioned mean that we can save the time we would spend writing love letters and instead spend more time reading his Weibo posts to research stock selection?"

This wave of welfare week activities during the 814 Welfare Festival has literally made countless netizens' backs ache.

While the event's concept (retro, handwriting, emotional expression) has garnered praise from some artistic youths and nostalgic individuals, it is seen by the general public, especially by netizens and investors who have experienced the "silent stock" frenzy and whose expectations have been infinitely raised, as a complete mismatch between the product and the reality, or even "selling nostalgia under the guise of AI!"
The market reaction to the initial expectations that AI would bring disruptive gameplay and even potentially ignite a new wave of "silent concept stocks 2.0" has been rather muted.

The stock prices of AI giants that were scrambling to become partners remained stable, while the stock prices of some stationery companies, cultural and creative brands, and postal-related companies inexplicably saw a slight increase. Netizens joked: "This is indeed the most 'back-to-basics' way of playing with AI, and it's the pen factories and paper mills that are taking off!"

The hashtag #WhereDidAIGo# quickly became a trending topic.

Its popularity even surpassed the "A Short Letter, Deep Affection" event during the 814 Welfare Week!
Interestingly, AI concept stocks rose with the start of the welfare week, although it felt like Chen Mo had misled them.

Strangely, there was no major drop in the stock price. Instead, the stock price stabilized because of the trending topic #WhereDidAIGo#.

Of course, in comparison, Chen Mo's influence was highlighted once again, namely, the "cultural and creative" concept stocks related to the event rose accordingly!
However, AI is ultimately just a tool, at least for now.

Soon, everyone's attention returned to this year's 814 Welfare Week.

After all, the benefits week is the key! And this event is just different from what everyone expected, but the event itself is still very interesting.

Love letters are truly a rare commodity in this era.

For the younger generation, "love letters" are not unfamiliar, but at the same time, they are also quite unfamiliar.

For example, the post-00 generation has never even experienced writing or receiving love letters while in school.

This generation is also the most receptive, so suddenly asking them to write retro love letters is not unacceptable; on the contrary, they find it quite interesting.

(End of this chapter)