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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 12 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Over the weekend, organizers of what was described as a "Willy Wonka Experience" in Scotland duped unsuspecting parents into bringing their kids to a truly dmsial event using clearly AI-generated marketing materials.

The $44-a-ticket experience turned out to fall well short of the fantastical landscapes dreamed up by an AI, with cheap-looking props sparsely populating a dirty warehouse near downtown Glasgow.

Local actor and comedian Paul Connell explained on TikTok how he was hired to be one of the three — not just one — Willy Wonkas tasked to entertain children at the event.

"Scene ends with the audience fully immersed in the interactive, magical experience, laughter and joy filling the air," it continues.

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

As Rolling Stone reports, Coull appears to be the only official employee of the company, and has since scrubbed many of his social media accounts, including a YouTube and LinkedIn profile, where he presents himself as a business-savvy life coach.


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[-] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 11 points 8 months ago

Is Blaming-the-AI killing off the Blaming-the-Intern industry???

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

They shouldn't blame the AI for this. This was obviously the humans not recreating the AI's artistic vision.

"Audience members engage with interactive flowers, offering compliments, to which the flowers respond with pre-recorded, whimsical thank-yous," the script reads.

[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

If you haven't seen the website for the event, do yourself a favor and check it out. The AI typos in the images are hilarious.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 4 points 8 months ago

Meth lab oompa loompa is my favorite meme of the year so far. It juxtaposed so well to the wonder and silliness of the movies, lmao.

[-] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Moist Critikal's video on this was a banger

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Searched for it on YouTube, but there's so many remixes and reaction videos and reposts and other bullshit that I honestly am not sure I found the right one.

Is this it?

https://youtu.be/BM6y-5t862E

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