The trend of showing off avatars generated by AI has returned. Many social networkers have replaced their avatars with new ones which have the same shade. They are created by AI.

The avatars posted by netizens are mostly created by Zalo AI Avatar, an AI program developed by Vietnamese engineers.

This is a mini app on Zalo. In order to create avatars with AI, users just need to log in the Zalo app and choose Zalo AI Avatar at the top of ‘Nhat ky’ (diary) tab.

After that, users post the images with their faces for AI to process. The images must be bright enough, contain only one face, and must not be obscured. 

The next step users need to take is choosing styles for their avatars. When entering information about sex and age, six image styles from Zalo are introduced to users for choice. After that, AI will automatically process the face on the original images and collage them to create a completed avatar.

Currently, Zalo AI Avatar allows every user to use avatar creation 50 times. After avatars are successfully generated, users can use the images for an avatar on Zalo, share with friends or save into their computers for posting on other social networks.

Hoai Phuong, 25, in Cau Giay district in Hanoi, said she was curious when seeing new avatars of my friends which have an unfamiliar style. She also tried to create one avatar and felt very satisfied about it.

Duc Thinh in Hoang Mai district in Hanoi, 60, also showed his interest in the trend. 

“I heard about creating avatar with AI generator a long time ago, but I did not care much about it, because I thought only those very good at technology could do this. But I have found that it is very easily done with Zalo after I asked my grandchildren,” he said.

In fact, many AI-based image generating programs appeared earlier this year, including Midjourney developed by David Holz, Dall-E (OpenAI) and Stable Diffusion (CompVis of Ludwig Maximilian Munich University in Germany). However, the programs are relatively complicated and can be used only by those with certain computer skills. Meanwhile, Zalo AI Avatar is much easier to be used.

Trong Dat