  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.
