Well I just turned on that option to 'block synthetic images' in the preferences, and wow, it's like UMD is back to its best again. Like many of you, I was enthusiastic about ai as a way of realising WAM fantasies, but the truth is the results left me feeling empty and totally unfulfilled. Sure there are some folks on here generating incredibly realistic stuff, Aceman38 in particular, for instance, but truth is I was seeing so much ai generated images on here and on social media in general - there was just TOO much of it - it was too much too soon and this may be because its so easy to produce on mass, it overwhelms you with its mediocrity.
So to be able to just kill it off, is like instant satisfaction. Feels like a huge mistake has been corrected. I love it. Anyone else done this??!

I did this too. For me AI didn't work as porn because no matter how good it looks, it didn't happen, so no one is actually getting messy.
I imagine there is large cross-over with those that like AI with those that like erotic literature or adult comics/anime.
At least it is ethically clean (assuming done legally); no food waste, no potential harm to models (only takes a large amount of water to produce images apparently).

Fine for those that like it but fails 100% for me.

I blocked because they usually don't depict my preferences. I prefer generating my own.

The synthetic filter feature is really nice!

I am worried. Some of the top real photos contributors of last year have not been uploading photos this year. Some have left umd. It feels like the synthetic images have gone up 10x and real images have gone down 10x.

I have the filter on as well. I LOVE it! I don't support a lot of things AI because it leads to less jobs for humans. All those AI images take the place of at least 2 jobs, the photographer and the model. I know of at least one writer that has said they will no longer post stories here because people were allowed to post AI written stories. It would not surprise me to find out some others had stopped posting content because AI was allowed.

Even as someone who has more than dabbled in using AI generators, I agree that ultimately it becomes generic and unsatisfying. I got frustrated with trying multiple iterations of prompts that don't return the outcomes I expect, even when there is no element of problematic content that the AI might block. The poses, angles and humans all look similar. Many things AI tries to create are still laughably bad, with elements mixed up worse than a child's drawing.
It also uses up huge amounts of energy in server operation, and is probably based on stealing others' art and photos. Interestingly there are advocacy groups that are crawling for unauthorised use of work in AI and bringing copyright lawsuits against the companies that have been doing this on the sly. Cue panic rearguard action to try and verify materials as free from this.

Yep, I noticed that.

My first AI project was a dog face and I couldn't get off the ground with it.

Eventually, I figured out that the offending word was "furry". No matter what I put in front of that word or behind it, it was called "unsafe content".

I do know what they were trying to keep out, but do they know how many actual animals they just blocked?

Nessie

I'll try it and get back to you thanks for letting me know

I'm not a fan of AI in any form, whether spoken, written, film or photo. I can feel 'fake' whenever I see it, so I too have turned the filter on. Even if it's a very good rendition of a beautiful person in very realistic mess it doesn't turn me on one bit. I far prefer a normal looking person in random mess to this fakeness.

However, hats off to people managing to generate the better images, just please don't flood here with it too much please

Totally agree with you.

AI has its place but modifying pictures on this site is not one of them. They used to say that the 'camera never lies' well that's another aphorism that we can consign to history!

I blocked it straight away, but I still see images appear in the 'People' page. The worst thing about it is how unimaginative they all are. We have the tools to generate just about anything yet I always seem to see variations of the same old thing.

I wanna see AI artists go wild. I wanna see someone bathing in a giant Nutella jar. I wanna see one hundred women mud wrestling on some distant mud planet. That sort of thing.

Interesting thead. I've struggled with the concept of AI wam and it's relationship with the site over the last year or so. The ability to create endless images is something I'm acutely aware of and there is also an the problem of repetition, quality and generally spamming the site.
Ultimately, I've decided to embrace AI but from a technological perspective. Initially it was to see what the boundaries and limits are for the commercial generators and more recently to train my own models. It's as much a learning experience for me as it is a creative one. The models that I am training are focused on the hyper realistic. The posts I make I try not to flood the forums with endless repetition. it does nothing for me in that sense. One you've got the ability/power to generate a scene, does it need to be shared a million times over? No. Instead, I try and focus on key milestones of the training, illustrations of where the progress has been made.
The commercial models now are crippled with censorship but the ability to train the more advanced public models is incredible.
I'm generally modest but my models are generating some incredible images that you'd be hard pushed to tell the difference between real or AI but it doesn't stop me buying, viewing or appreciating producer content. I think the fears of AI impacting producers is premature and will be for a while. AI video is developing quick but the quality is still poor, they are immensely expense to run and only produce short clips.

Imaging is way more advanced but still has limitations. Commercial sites are censored and if you want to train a public model to a high standard, it's going to cost £££. I've spent well over £300 testing and training models and will likely spend more again. But imaging still has limitations. Consistent characters is more difficult to achieve as is scene consistency. You also can't create a series of images depicting the same person progressively getting messy and undressing etc.

All this being said, I do welcome the AI filtering, it's all about the right to choose. I also think there needs to be further rethink about how AI images and video is presented on the site. It's not going away and the volume will increase significantly over the next year.

Fetishes are repetitive. It's the same fantasy all your life. One thing about AI is that it's really made that clear that everyone has that one specific thing and that all the "real content" we've been looking at has just been an approximation towards it.

AI content is part of a larger trend. Over the past decade and a half, the barrier to entry to producing video in general, and adult content in particular, has become lower and lower. Now, literally anyone that wants to can produce marketable wam porn.

There is no longer a distinction between amateur and professional, and many of the professional sites are gone. No more Gungegirls, glamourgunge, or messy mayhem. The site is now awash with short scenes shot on phones, onlyfans accounts, and photos of girlfriends in bathtubs. There's more content than ever and I want it less than ever before, and in many ways AI is the most interesting thing happening right now.

Agree that you should be able to filter it out though.

Has anybody else noticed that a lot of "synthetic" tagged albums in the Gallery section are still showing up when "natural" is set as the filter? Seems to not be working as intended

If you would, please flag those images when you see them, and we'll fix their tagging. The filter only works if people mark their stuff synthetic, and sometimes they forget to

Sorry, what I mean is they are tagged with the little pink "Synthetic" tag next to the album name, but the album is still showing up alongside all the others with the natural filter selected. Some of these galleries have hundreds of images that I have no interest in looking at, I don't really want to spend each evening reporting each image.

Can easily be seen which albums are culprits by just selecting natural on the user gallery section. I just counted 37 synthetic albums on the first page when I just checked.

You were absolutely right! Thanks for noticing that. I've gone and adjusted it so that synthetic albums are also filtered out just like synthetic pics when you have that filter on.

Thanks again

Even though it's blocked I can still see accounts with it. Absolutely blatant it's ridiculous. Why the hell are certain accounts allowed to operate and pretend to be real?!

Yep just mentioned this. And then you get people interacting with them taking as if it's a real person. Makes me feel super embarrassed for them. It's also just so weird.

What happened when you flagged / reported the accounts in question ?

I am presuming you have (or how else could the moderators / MM be expected to investigate) but you don't say exactly what happened.

My experience has been different....whenever I have flagged something, it's always been swiftly looked at

The account I was looking at turned out to be real so maybe I was mistaken. Things were looked at quickly.
Fake images are just not really my thing.