I've noticed the trend for AI material here is accelerating at a seemingly exponential rate. I even had a little dabble myself, for fun, and to see what kind of results could be achieved. I found it to be naive at best, but this undoubtedly says far more about my use of it than AI itself. Clearly there are some on here that are manipulating it to a far greater standard.
Looking into the future, I see a time when people sharing "analogue" pictures of their WAM exploits will be almost the exception, like AI was a short time ago. I can really see it taking over at least from the "consumer" side. What I mean by that is that I will surely be able to share an AI generated picture of my preferred activities (getting muddy in nice clothes, especially socks and shoes), but I won't get to enjoy the feeling of getting muddy, and the excitement and humour of my shoe getting sucked off in the thick oozy mud. So I will continue to enjoy that, and, I guess, sharing the pictures that a small handful of folk here seem to love. But will I be very much in the minority, partaking in actual messy activity and not just synthesising it?
This is not me complaining, by the way. I'm just keen to learn what others think about this emerging technology.
Some "analogue" pictures shared for fun!

There's already a divide similar to this in some WAM groups for furries (for those not familiar, we're a fandom/subculture based around anthropomorphic animal characters).
I see relatively few of us getting messy IRL and sharing pictures, compared to the number sharing and commissioning art of their characters in messy situations. And some of those getting off to fantasy WAM art have never got messy themselves. I'm firmly in the real-life mess camp!

It does seem to be growing exponentially.

I have been one synthesizing it and making impossible fantasy standards. I have been concerned about the impact on the consumer side. I am very scared that images that I produce may discourage people from submitting real photos.

I am also scared about a users impression of this site seeing it for the first time. If people come here and see nothing but AI pictures under the People tab, or rarely see users make forum posts about their real experiences, new users might not get an impression that they can do that. I enjoy seeing users posting their experiences, so I am afraid that their will be fewer new users joining that post real experiences.

The main benefit that I have had from posting these synthetic images is that I made a friend. It does bring me joy to read a comment from an image that I share that someone liked it or had a similar fantasy. Until this year, I have never even communicated with anyone about WAM. Posting images gave me confidence. I can imagine that posting real images of is even better.

For me, WAM has been a fantasy. I watch videos and have the strongest desire to experience what the model is experiencing. I have watched mud scenes for half of my life. I have never been muddy. There is nothing I want more than to try it. I wish I was standing in your shoes

Personally I have no interest in AI images however well they are done. I need to know it's a real person I'm seeing getting wet and messy, otherwise there's no erotic thrill. It just becomes a technical exercise and not a turn on, at least not for me.

From reading posts on other related threads I'm sure I'm not alone in that view and I can't see the demand for "real" images and videos drying up in the face of AI. That said I appreciate people have different interests and I wouldnt want to restrict the production of AI material just as long as the requirement to mark all AI material as such remains and I can continue to use the very effective block that prevents me seeing AI here.

After all my interest is fairly niche. I'm into wet and messy hair (sorry not feet, other end of the body) and I can hardly expect everyone to conform to my view of WAM.

Haning been following the subject of AI wam for a year now, and dabbling with a few experimental platforms, my view of it at the moment is:

1. We're still at the very early stages. Think of the very earliest locomotives from the dawn of the steam age. That's where we're at at the moment with AI. They worked and hauled heavy loads around the mines and over short distances. But they barely went faster than a walking horse, and required a team of people to operate them. Though with the pace of development over the last year we've perhaps gone from "Puffing Billy" (1815) to "Rocket" (1832). But "Flying Scotsman" (1923) is still far in the future.

2. I don't think we'll be seeing the end of "analogue WAM" any time soon. Good though AI imagery is, so far you can't create a sequence, never mind video. When I buy WAM media, I expect a full story of how the people in the media went from completely clean to fully messy, with photos, and/or video, showing the entire process.

Imagine a woman wearing tracksuit trousers and a crop top having her tousers filled with custard. I want all round views clean, then to see the custard being poured in, and then the dfferent stages as it flows down inside, at first just the rippling effect on the surface of the fabric, then the gradual staining and dampening as it wets through from inside, and so on. AI is good at creating a single image mid-process, but can't yet produce a sequence of images of the same person in the same clothes being messed up.

3. There is probably going to be a generational divide. Those growing up now who will be used to being surrounded by generated images may have a different view to those of us who grew up in the before times.

4. I suspect the business model of AI WAM will be less about selling generated images and more enabling people to generate their own, and charging them for access to systems that enable them to do that. Meanwhile the existing business model that provides videos and photos of actual real-world WAM scenes will continue to operate, providing content for people who want to know that a real human person went through the gunging depicted and felt all the messiness and wetness for real.