If you pie someone in the woods and they don't make a sound...do you still have to notify the park ranger?

Just wanted your attention for a question to ponder...assuming it's still legal to ponder in your area.

So, now that I have kinda sorta almost figured out how to create some semi decent A.I. WAM I was thinking about a question someone asked me a while back.To wit: (or in my case "half wit")...Did I remember every WAM session I had that there is no video for.

I said "Every WAM session?" I don't even remember a company Zoom call from yesterday. Maybe I have early onset piesheimers. (Apologies to those who have dealt with the real thing. That is not fun).

Anyway, his question gave me an idea. So about a week ago I simply tried to remember every "encounter" i had over the years that are NOT on video and began creating mini vids from those memories.

I cannot BELIEVE how close A.I. came in almost every instance so far in getting everything right. I did use the original faces, but geez I mean in some cases virtually perfect. (Yes, I know something can't be virtually perfect. It's either perfect or it's not).

So I showed one of my friends the vid and she freaked. "That's me but like 30 years ago" which is what I thought as well.

Keep that thought....

Now, what if I didn't have video of the WAM play, but DID have pictures? Like when vid cams were too expensive so for fun pics to look at we used a timer release which snapped pics every 30 secs or so.
So now I have these pics and of course I could upload them with my friend's permission.

But What if I don't upload them? What if I just describe them in a prompt?

And here's the question(s):

If I upload the original picture...then the original content isn't synthetic. But if I take a program and make it move? Is it synthetic? My personal thought was yes...but was curious as to others thoughts.

Then....what if I create a picture from my text prompts FROM the original picture and it looks virtually identical?
Then it's synthetic and the original content is real?

As you might have surmised (assuming you were enough of a dick to say "surmised"), I have created a number of vids now that were real content, but I made them move in video form with A.I.

To be honest, it's actually kind of freaky when it's someone I know. It's almost like a WAM time machine.

All of the above overlaps in my mind especially when I'm thinking of creating a "hybridvid" that will have A.I. creations and honest to goodness real people interacting.

Hey, look, I actually kept this missive short. (cough)

Robby

From a UMD POV I believe that would count as synthetic, as while created from non-synthetic stills, the video would count as AI and not Memorex (whatever happened to them - I had lots of their audio cassettes once upon a time).

MM anticipated things like this hence the rules that AI images or video based on real people (whether created from a photo or from a prompt) can only be posted if full consent and model releases are in place. But as it looks like you have or can get those, you'd be able to post the videos here, as long as it's made clear that they are synthetic. I think it'd also be fine to sell them but check with MM to be absolutely sure on that aspect.

Personally, a rule I've imposed on myself is that even though I have signed releases for all of the people I've ever shot with, all of whom were fully aware it was fetish modelling and signed for "any legal form of trade" use, I won't generate any AI images or videos of any of them without obtaining a fresh and specific permission for that purpose. On the one hand it'd be an interesting way to "videofy" some of our very early photo-only scenes. But on the other, the models twenty years ago could never have imagined how things have developed since, and there are ethical considerations given people thought they were only consenting to still photography.

At this point I've no idea if AI WAM will eventually become part of the WAM marketplace or not, if it does I expect models will charge massively more to have an "AI Use" clause included in the release, as it'll allow the producer to go on churning out scenes of them, almost cost-free, with them gaining no additional income from it, so they'll need to front-load the charges to compensate.

How saleable it is will also depend on exactly what any specific buyer wants. If they are just after the visuals, then quality AI (which will cost rather more than today's experimental ones do) may well be viable. But there will always be those who don't just want to see a woman in a formal dress having her cleavage filled with custard, but want to know it actially happened, and that a real breathing human woman experienced all the sensations as the gloop was poured in. Of course your scenes created from actual photos during the taking of which a real woman genuinely did get messy, adds a kind of third level - it's both AI and real at the same time.

Video works through persistence of vision - you see a series of still frames taken very fast one after the other and your mind turns it into a moving image. So from one POV, AI doing the same thing but filling in the gaps between still images taken much more slowly is kind of the same but different? Absolutely fascinating area.

It'll certainly be interesting to see how things develop over the next ten years or so.