The global metaverse development is facing a "cooldown moment", while the academia and industry attention moves drastically from the Metaverse to AI Generated Content (AIGC) in 2023. Nonetheless, the current discussion rarely considers the connection between AIGCs and the Metaverse. We can imagine the Metaverse, i.e., immersive cyberspace, is the black void of space, and AIGCs can simultaneously offer content and facilitate diverse user needs. As such, this article argues that AIGCs can be a vital technological enabler for the Metaverse. The article first provides a retrospect of the major pitfall of the metaverse applications in 2022. Second, we discuss from a user-centric perspective how the metaverse development will accelerate with AIGCs. Next, the article conjectures future scenarios concatenating the Metaverse and AIGCs. Accordingly, we advocate for an AI-Generated Metaverse (AIGM) framework for energizing the creation of metaverse content in the AIGC era.

翻译：全球元宇宙发展正面临“降温时刻”，而学术界和产业界的关注焦点在2023年急剧从元宇宙转向AI生成内容（AIGC）。然而，当前讨论鲜少涉及AIGC与元宇宙之间的关联。我们可以将元宇宙（即沉浸式网络空间）设想为广袤的虚空，而AIGC能同时提供内容并满足用户多样化需求。为此，本文论证AIGC可作为元宇宙的关键技术赋能者。文章首先回顾了2022年元宇宙应用的主要问题；其次，从用户中心视角探讨AIGC如何加速元宇宙发展；随后，本文设想未来元宇宙与AIGC融合的场景。基于此，我们提出AI生成元宇宙（AIGM）框架，以激发AIGC时代元宇宙内容的创造性。