That Zhang Xiaoqian meme was something I generated directly using ChatGPT. It was just for fun, but I didn’t expect the image to get reposted back in China and start trending, instantly boosting Zhang Xiaoqian’s stock forum ranking by thousands of places. Both the image and the tagline were directly generated by GPT. What used to take a whole operations team and designers to create can now be done by GPT in just ten seconds. I didn’t even provide GPT with the backstory—it completely understood the context. And this is just the first few years of AI’s emergence, the starting phase.