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：摘要：全球元宇宙发展正面临“降温时刻”，而学术界与产业界的注意力在2023年急剧从元宇宙转向人工智能生成内容（AIGC）。然而，当前的讨论很少考虑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）想象为太空中的黑色虚空，而AIGC则能同时提供内容并满足多样化的用户需求。为此，本文论证AIGC可作为元宇宙的关键技术推动力。文章首先回顾了2022年元宇宙应用的主要缺陷。其次，我们从以用户为中心的视角探讨了AIGC将如何加速元宇宙发展。接着，文章推测了将元宇宙与AIGC串联的未来场景。据此，我们倡导构建一个AI生成元宇宙（AIGM）框架，以在AIGC时代激发元宇宙内容的创作活力。