Face swaps and undress tools do not care whose face you hand them. You have to. The technology being indifferent is precisely why the rules around it are not, and why every serious studio — this one included — treats consent as a gate you pass before a job, not a disclaimer you scroll past after one.
The bright lines
- Your own face: fine. Your photos, your call, within the platform’s adults-only rules.
- A fictional character you created: fine. She does not exist, which is the point. Keep her character card and first frames on file so “she is fictional” is a fact you can show, not a claim you make.
- Another adult, with documented consent: workable. Documented means written, scoped and kept — what may be made, for how long, and revocable. A vibe in a chat thread is not documentation.
- Anyone else: no. Public figures, acquaintances, strangers from the internet, anyone whose consent you cannot produce. No exceptions for “it is just a joke” or “they would love it.”
- Minors, or anyone who could be read as one: absolutely never. This line ends accounts and, where the law requires, gets reported.
Why professionals default to fictional
It is not only ethics; it is arithmetic. A fictional mascot never withdraws consent, never has a bad week in the press, never limits which sets you can sell. Her face is an asset you own outright, consistent across stills, swaps and video because one source file and one character card define her. The creators building durable pages are building them on faces they invented. Everyone else is one complaint away from losing the catalogue the face was carrying.
The working habit
Before any swap or transformation job, ask one question out loud: whose face is this, and where is the paper? If the answer is a shrug, the job does not run. It takes five seconds, and it is the cheapest insurance in the entire studio.