I like to imagine that this whole event was the result of the first truly rogue AI that generated its own plans for an event, sent out the necessary emails to hire the people to put it together, and everything in secret under its creator’s nose.
It probably isn’t that, though. Because even AI wouldn’t fuck up this badly.
This was one of the best reads I’ve had in a long time. Clicking the links to related articles is highly recommended.
I like the rolling stone article where he also sells AI generated vaccine conspiracy books.
This is the type of thing to keep in your back pocket for days when you need perspective. Sure you messed up today. But did you Billy Coull your day?
duped unsuspecting parents into bringing their kids to a truly dmsial event using clearly AI-generated marketing materials.
Said the AI generated article.
would AI spell “dismal” wrong?
If you told it to include human like errors yeah
Or if the prompt contains errors, the reply will be ‘in the style of [error]’ or something along the lines of ‘reply in the colloquial style of [Name-1]’ …
It randomly assumes everything that is undefined on many many levels.
I’m not even sure a person would spell it that wrong.
I could do it after 6 or 8 beers I’m sure.
Light weight
The best part about this event was the new Wonka lore of The Unknown, an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls
Therqpist: “The evil chocolate maker in the walls isn’t real, he can’t hurt you!”
Me: gestures to this article
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…
Same here, generally, but I think there are a tiny few people who have a legitimate reason for using TTS. For instance, those whose English skills are lacking, or who have an accent which some might find distracting. Or a person who is self-conscious about their voice but still has something to offer, or maybe those who legitimately can’t speak at all. Hell, I support anyone who could narrate but doesn’t want to put their voice out there for privacy reasons, or to keep it out of the public space where it will inevitably be used as training data.
I’d still rather listen to the human, because I can’t stand any of the “AI” voices, especially those that are used on every fucking tiktok (I stay away from TT, but unfortunately the voices are pretty ubiquitous). It might sound silly but I’d prefer good old Microsoft Sam to the any of these new voices.
One channel I found recently for coding-related topics uses TTS but before I got annoyed enough to close it, I realized that the script was probably hand-written, just narrated by a machine. The video was highly informative, and I walked away having learned some new information. For the curious
Something that sucks about this new wave of TTS is that we get some odd errors in pronunciation that probably wouldn’t be there if it was spoken by a human. A missing comma or other punctuation errors will pass a spell check but end up sounding really strange due to the broken inflection. Uncanny Valley stuff I suppose.
AI thumbnails are utter garbage though. All polish, no substance, no love for the craft.
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These don’t work
I’ve never been able to get these piped links to work. Do they only work on desktop or something?
As far as I can tell they stopped working a couple weeks ago, but I’m not sure.
Worked for me on mobile for a while.
Yup. I think the worst offenders are the videos that are just Wikipedia pages with still images and an AI text-to-speech robot voice. It’s the world’s laziest form of “content creation” and I always downvote them.
Down voting is engagement. They don’t care if you hate it as long as you watch it. Block the channel.
Same with comments. For their purposes, a comment that says “i want my 10 minutes back, I hope you die.” is basicallly the same as “best 20 minutes ever! (I watched it twice)”
I almost never click a video by someone I don’t know these days. It’s almost always a waste of time.
I’ve recently been using the home page on YT (in addition to my bookmark, which takes me straight to /feed/subscriptions) and I’ve been pleasantly surprised. It seems like the algorithm is generally pretty good at finding similar videos to the ones I enjoy. That is unless I scroll waaaaay down, where it just runs out of ideas. I would recommend trying out your home page, with some light pruning as needed (“Not interested”, “Don’t recommend channel”).
Imagine hosting an event so lame that it makes international news solely because of how incredibly lame it was. Just damn.
International party pooper
Doesn’t sound much worse than the Avengers experience that came to my city. It was like $30 for a 10 minute walkabout of a big room with the avenger costumes and a bunch of costumes, I felt ripped off
I get the feeling that most of these "experience’ things I’ve been hearing about lately are low effort cash grabs.
I went to the office experience in Chicago a few years ago and it was awesome. They literally recreated the entire office layout with all the props and everything.
From what I understand the Jurassic world one was actually really good and they put in the effort
The Harry Potter one back in the day that I think gave these a kickstart was honestly comparable to most museums I’ve been to, tho obviously smaller and not as interesting, they did have the actual props and costumes there from filming tho which was dope.
From what I understand the Jurassic world one was actually really good and they put in the effort
Or like the Friends experience that is a yearly occurrence in Manhattan. I’m a huge fan of the show and lived in NYC for 5 years, but I never went there. The first time I saw it, my girlfriend and I walked by the place it was at, and it was a shitty re-creation of Central Perk. There were like 100 people lined up on the sidewalk just to go inside and sit on the orange couch and drink coffee. James Michael Tyler (who played Gunther, the barista) was also there.
There’s a bit more to it than just the Central Perk part. They’ve recreated the apartments and a few other major scenes and have a lot of props from the show. We had just finished a rewatch of the show and found it pretty enjoyable on a rainy day in the city. I think we spent about an hour in there and came out with some cool staged scene pictures. I still thought it was overpriced, but didn’t feel ripped off.
Ick. To a very specific audience - prop makers - that $30 is a great deal to get up close looks at costumes and props whose details don’t always show up on screen.
Sucks if they advertised it as more, though.
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 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 AI part is what makes this fuck up special and international news.
We are used to human fuck ups, but a in person event where the organizers where so lazy that they used AI to create the content and that it sucked is something novel.
AI generated pictures, blogs and books are old news, generated in person events is new.
The head guy self published something like a dozen AI generated books that he’s selling on Amazon too
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.
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.
People going in expecting a fun adventure with Willy Wonka and having a horrible time because it was created by an asshole trying to teach them a lesson…sounds like the plot of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!
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.
More like…
“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”
“Charlie Kelly and the Chocolate Factory”
Dennis uses it to play a sexy Wonka, Dee gets attacked for use of ‘orange face’, Mac has a nightmare experience in the haunted tunnel, and Charlie and Frank accidentally end up cooking meth for kids.
Am I supposed to be mad at these small time
con-mencapitalists? 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.Why are you harassing these glorious, aspiring job creators acting in rational self-interest?
We went to Japan last year and they have a fast food chain called MOS burger. The food looked exactly like the menu pictures… It was amazing! Plump and delicious.
They tasted like the pictures too!
Pulpy and full of ink.
Our society is long overdue giving con men the ass kicking they deserve.
Back to the days of running the snake oil salesmen out of town tarred and feathered?
Can we start with the con-men hurting/exploiting millions and threatening billions with their “externalities,” capitalist Orwellian shorthand for “I already have your money, so my mess is your problem you stupid fucking suckers 🤑🖕?”
Because these bottom feeders are just a symptom of the above’s global sociocultural damage. They ruined some kids afternoon. It might be cathartic to kkck their ass, but it’s odd considering how comfortable we are with our most prolific con-men being allowed to own, and keep!.. every exploited, scammed dollar, instead kicking their ass as you say.
Consistency is important.
I agree. We need a new saying that parallels “One death is a tragedy, one million deaths are a statistic.”
Fair enough
What? They didn’t slightly miscalculate the minimum, they grossly blasted past it. Yes, your point is that false advertising is a spectrum, and a certain amount is generally expected, but this isn’t in some mushy grey area of it, it’s egregiously over the line. Yeah food doesn’t look like it does on the packages, but if this event were food it would be a grey goop. Frankly I find your attempt at ignoring magnitude lazy, sloppy, and cynical.
Lol magnitude? Really? These microcapitalists ruined these kids afternoon with their scam, while while the ones these scammers emulate poison them with microplastics and Threaten their ONLY habitat, to the scam shareholder’s applause and most of society considering them aspirational figures, buying the scam of “sometimes companies make a mess, it isn’t their problem or responsibility, and we call this competely valid economic event an externality herp derp 🤡.”
Also Most of corporate run INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXPERIENCE exhibitions are only one step up from this in terms of marketing vs reality. They calculated the formula of acceptable
customermark dissatisfaction correctly.So please, do continue telling me more about the magnitude of these microcapitalist’s microscam.
sits in Wonka meme pose.
Dude, put this stuff in your comment then. All you mentioned in your comment was that food doesn’t look the way they do in advertisements. I can’t read your mind, I can only read what’s in your comment.
Come on, they’ve given those kids and their parents an experience they’ll remember for years to come! They’ll be able to talk about it at every social gathering! It’s priceless!
Yes. Yes you are.
I’m sure little weasel Billy Coull is hiding out until things cool off then he’ll be back out fucking over people again. Hopefully the workers run scumbag Billy out of town if they’re not paid.
Moist Critikal’s video on this was a banger
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?
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Yup, that’s the correct video.
