Am I supposed to be mad at these small time ~~con-men~~ capitalists? This is what the modern global economy is all about. Attempting to fuck over the people who aren't you, attempting to receive the maximum while providing the absolute minimum you can get away with without consequences. Their mistake was only slightly miscalculating that minimum where people would feel cheated but otherwise leave minus their money grumbling, but not enough to make it a weird news of the day story.

When's the last time your fast food sandwich looked remotely like the one on all the signs?They look like that sandwich in the ad was a tire that got deflated, deforming under its own weight, at best. Those scammers just had swaths of lawyers and lobbyists to make their false advertising your problem, until now it's just how it is. Deception is a vital component of market capitalism.

Why are you harassing these glorious, aspiring job creators acting in rational self-interest?

I know people don't read articles, but at least scroll down to the picture of "an Oompa Loompa running a meth lab"

Coull appears to be the only official employee of the company, ...he presents himself as a business-savvy life coach.

Life coach, why am I not surprised?

duped unsuspecting parents into bringing their kids to a truly dmsial event using clearly AI-generated marketing materials.

Said the AI generated article.

I look forward to more AI failures and flops and hope the public and financial backlash is intense for each every one of them. You cannot automate human creativity, and until the powers that be feel that in their wallets, we're going to be getting more and more of this inane drivel while actual, talented writers lose job opportunities.

The company has since promised to refund customers, but whether they'll all actually get their money back remains to be seen.

I'd be demanding it in full.

Connell wasn't the only actor surprised to find that props promised by the script didn't actually exist.

So there was never a dress rehearsal and the performance was a cold read? AI may be to blame for the bad script, but there many other points of failure happening here.

I think i read this story when it was called huckleberry finn.

It was that book, right? Where the con man sold tickets to a "ribald show" which ended up just being one dude running around naked?

Imagine hosting an event so lame that it makes international news solely because of how incredibly lame it was. Just damn.

Sure, AI can whip up fantastical imagery and low-effort dialog — but if audiences call BS, the blowback can be extraordinarily embarrassing.

I see AI generated bullshit on youtube all the time these days. To the point where I can tell by the thumbnail before I even watch it. I've gotten in the habit of checking out new-to-me channels in a private window first, before deciding whether I want to subscribe or even keep watching. The instant I detect any AI... either in the voice or the nonsensical writing, I'm outa there. I do e-learning multimedia for a living, and we use a lot of stock images, and those sites are being loaded up with AI generated garbage. It's getting harder to find stuff that isn't AI, and using it to generate your own is a total crapshoot as far as results go...

this isn't so much a failure of AI generated anything. it's a failure by the organisers to have the budget needed to do it. this was 100% human fuck up. So weird the article tries to spin it that it's somehow an AI fail.

The best part about this event was the new Wonka lore of The Unknown, an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls

This whole event reads more like an artist trying to showcase the dangers of machine learning models. It's honestly hilarious to see how people just fell for some pretty pictures that were clearly generated with AI and ended up at an oompa loompa meth lab.

This feels like an episode of The Apprentice. Lord Sugar (appropriate!): “Willy Wonka? More like Willy Wanker.” Cut to sweaty Project Manager about to be fired.

The only way this would have worked is if everyone had been given a little tab of lsd.

So the script called for some of the Wonka's to use vacuums, but they didn't have vacuums, so they had to improvise.

But they managed to pull out a chemistry set.

What the fuck is happening.

This was one of the best reads I've had in a long time. Clicking the links to related articles is highly recommended.