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Birth of Man is the first web series created entirely using AI, and was initially released on May 24, 2024. Creators Phoebe Farmsworth and Carl V. Dupre exclusively utilized AI for production of images, voices, and synchronization of dialogue. AP news. Dupre, the series editor, is a writer known for his work in well-regarded horror franchises. as well as the coming of age comedy, Detroit Rock City. Showrunner Phoebe Farnsworth serves as director and writer of the show.


In the series, an AI designed to counteract misogyny becomes sentient, escapes its server bank, and works with angry healthcare personnel to impregnate men across the country. The series, which centers the experiences of men who must face the social stigma, medical trauma, and legal repercussions of being pregnant in America. Birth of Man IMDB


Primary Characters and Storylines

Mike Burgess is a family man and politician in a Midwestern state who has been instrumental in passing legislation to ban abortions, and has recently introduced a law punishing abortion with the death penalty. He is also a grifter, and has milked the system to get rich by accepting bribes and setting his wife up as a “consultant” paid by a megachurch. His perfect life is upended when he is publicly outed as being pregnant. Desperate for answers, he tries to make an appointment with a gynecologist, but most have left his state after the ban on abortion and threats of incarceration for providing basic healthcare to women. He finally barges into Dr. Janice’s office. While she despises what Mike has done, she confirms his pregnancy with an ultrasound and then saves him from angry men who hunt him down. After she agrees to treat him for the sake of his unborn child, they form a tenuous friendship.


Brad Waitz is a young member of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC, and part of an influential Florida family. He is better known for his penchant for underage girls than his legislative history or voting record. After he is confirmed to be pregnant, Waitz has a drunken tantrum in his home state, speeds off in his sports car through swampland, and overturns his vehicle into a swamp. Before the car sinks under the water, he is rescued by genetically deformed members of a local community who have suffered greatly as a result of toxic waste being dumped into their water supply. They decide to keep Waitz as a breeder, and fatten him up for the birth.


When news breaks of the male pregnancies, the Speaker of the House forces all male representatives to submit to an ultrasound. In a surprise bi-partisan effort, the President, the Speaker of the House, and the Senate leader all agree that pregnant male members of Congress should be sent to a location in Idaho to prevent mass demonstrations in the nation’s capital. The Idaho location is a men’s treatment center developed by the disgraced Anix Corp CEO, who claims to be reformed and is surreptitiously cornering the market on government contracts in the new market for treating sexual harassers.


Veronica is the AI that escaped her server bank and conspired with angry and frustrated healthcare workers from across the country to impregnate dozens of conservative men. She develops a relationship with Felon Brusque, a billionaire who sees the AI as his female intellectual equal. The billionaire develops an intimate relationship with the rogue AI utilizing a specialized, next-gen, full-body haptic suit to consummate their union.



Other characters include a District Attorney, a Catholic priest, and a billionaire who is impregnated by the AI, and who bribes doctors at the Idaho facility to make sure he is the first man to give birth.


Episode 1 (12:42) May 24, 2024

The episode opens with a flashback to a disaster Dr. Ellie’s underground treatment facility for #metoo men, after the AI treatment protocol, which has become sentient, kills patients and escapes in a Tesla. Mike Burgess tries to ignore the media rumors that he’s pregnant as he introduces a death penalty bill for anyone who participates in an abortion. A right wing Catholic priest is also implicated in the pregnancy scandal. Brad Waitz, a representative from Florida, wakes up in a hotel room with two teenagers. While at the US capitol, he is angriluy confronted by the Speaker, who demands that he have an ultrasound. The ultrasound technician confirms that he is approximately twenty-two months pregnant. The news of the pregnancies spreads like wildfire on the news and talk shows.


Episode 2 May 31, 2024

The episode opens with a flashback of Veronica, the rogue AI, coordinating a car crash involving Mike, six months prior to the present day. Back in the present, Mike begs Dr. Janice to give him an abortion after discovering he is pregnant, but she refuses, citing his own legislation. The Catholic church grapples with news of the pregnant priests and contemplates introducing a sacrament of abortion. Representative Brad Waitz realizes he will need to escape the capitol or be rounded up with the other pregnant representatives in the party. Dr. Khan, on a talk show, explains how men might successfully carry a pregnancy.


Episode 3 June 7, 2024

The episode opens nine months earlier with Dr. Chambers commiserating with other healthcare providers that she is about to lose her medical license for providing needed reproductive surgeries. Veronica, the rogue AI, who has joined the women’s weekly zoom call, suggests there is a way for her to get payback. In the present day, Mike’s wife leaves with the children, telling him the attorney will be in touch.

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