Ask HN: Why not use AI to make professional wrestling look less fake?

1 amichail 3 6/5/2025, 2:05:24 PM
For example, in WWE live streaming, you could use AI to make punches and kicks look like they made contact even when they didn't.

Comments (3)

Festro · 1d ago
I don't think there's any demand for this. Plenty of people like WWE as is. They go for the theatre and drama of it. And the solution would create a gap between recordings and the live in-arena experience which fans wouldn't like.
amichail · 1d ago
Don't the vast majority of fans sit too far away to see that a punch/kick missed?
techpineapple · 1d ago
I’m not a huge WWE fan, but I wonder if it would ruin the aesthetic. Part of the art I’m sure is the way the different wrestlers sell it. That appreciation of “art” may go away as AI takes over, but it may not —- being more real might actually be more boring.