Along with the rise of ChatGPT, AI(Artificial Intelligence) application now is standing in the centre of a storm. People are amazed by its extremely high-efficiency in communicating, writing, even designing, also fearing and panicking of its superpower and ethical boundary might even overthrow the human society. Especially for fashion industry, fashion designers are fear about the AI tools such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion AI Fashion may take over the places then cause a catastrophic unemployment disaster for all the fashion and pattern designers within a few years. Yet, is it possible to happen?

Another“Spinning Jenny”

In fact, the tool revolution in fashion industry has started quietly before the born of ChatGPT. Designing software such as Tiamat, Fabrie, Style3D is applying widely in fashion designing. Such as Fabrie, it features functionalities like multi-user collaboration, limitless whiteboard, data tables, cloud storage, sharing..,etc. After the born of AIGC(Artificial Intelligence Generate Contents), they updates the same functions as well. Indeed, after the AIGC algorithm has been added in these softwares, they can surprisingly and randomly generate different kinds of patterns, prints, textures even textiles in seconds, bringing creative ideas for designers. However, whether they are capable for the market still needs to be decided by the company, which means, the designers still need to make a judgement for these patterns, like they ever do.

The situation happened similarly in centuries ago, it was the invention of”Spinning Jenny”, the first textile machine on the world during the first Industrial Revolution., which also caused a panic among the clothing workers. However, it was proved after years that the clothing industry still were in lack of human labor. The machine needs to be operated by human correctly. It is obvious that the AIGC techniques require the same, so far.

Rowing in the wave of revolution

The well-known global survey institution McKinsey released a report and predicted that the AIGC application might bring billions growth for fashion industry. There are lots of famous brands, designing and retail platforms has started to make AIGC a collaborative way in fashion designs. It seems it is unavoidable that a flattered, convenient tool must have their place in the beginning.

Nevertheless, the concerns of copyrights, legals, ethical problems still exist. To make sure that these won’t happen, there are some governments such as Italy has released the law to forbid the usage of ChatGPT, so as some drawing platforms such as Pixiv. It seems there is no answer if AI might overturn the fashion industry. But now there is an undeniable fact: the AIGC is making a huge difference to our fashion industry and this is unstoppable.

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