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How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?
- evrflx 3y agoWhy blame the ai when in fact it was poorly executed obviously with insufficient budget?
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoWhere are they blaming AI? They're just pointing out that the fellow behind this has a history of making books and artwork using AI, and using it to scam people. The mistake he made is overestimating AI and his own ability to bullshit around it.
- sharkjacobs 3y agoAI art is the latest signifier of “too cheap to be legit” but it’s still new enough that the general public isn’t attuned to it. That’s why that’s the angle the news channels take with it.
- smcin 3y agoWonder what a GenAI poster based on a description of Fyre Festival looks like...
- defrost 3y agoA Hieronymus Bosch style panorama of performative sexual favours being exchanged for sustenance in a Mad Max landscape. Mind you, that depends entirely upon which description is input.
- praptak 3y agoHave you considered applying for an AI Prompt Engineer job?
- notahacker 3y ago> A Hieronymus Bosch style panorama of performative sexual favours being exchanged for sustenance in a Mad Max landscape I can see tickets for a festival with that poster selling well...
- smcin 3y agoAre you telling me those tickets I bought for Fyre #### Festival are bogus?
- smcin 3y agoI don't see that they're blaming GenAI, rather saying that AI now allows fraudsters to easily generate impressive-looking but completely fictitious marketing which then persuades people to spend thousands on tickets. Without that, he wouldn't have sold many tickets. "The use of AI, both in marketing imagery and writing, appears to be a recurring theme of Billy Coull's recent business endeavours."
- bawolff 3y agoFraudsters never had any problems doing that in the pre-generative AI era.
- username332211 3y agoThe website of the event promises such enchering entertainment as catgacatching, cartchy tuns and exarserday lollipops. Or you can visit the `Twilight tunnel, with it's engemic sounds and ukexpced twits. (DALL-E can't spell) I don't think the fraudster is in any way more impressive than more traditional scams like the Nigerian prince.
- userbinator 3y agoDon't forget the pasadise of sweet teats! I wonder if they deliberately left those red flags in as a filter, in the same way that the traditional scammers often add spelling and grammar errors. Those who spot the low-effort attempt know what they'll get and stay away, while those who don't may simply get what they deserved.
- kzrdude 3y agoSeeing how the organizer handed actors AI-written scripts, he obviously has a problem where he thinks AI can replace everything, including his own or others' hard work. I don't know what the right words are but someone needs to give him a wake-up call that AI is not going to be his ticket to not having to work for the rest of his life.
- jbjbjbjb 3y agoYou can see from the decor that no effort was made on anything. The problem here is someone trying to make a quick buck not AI itself.
- creshal 3y agoThese kinds of scammers have tried to substitute hard work with literally anything they can get their hands on for their entire lives and never learn. They'll keep trying with whatever they can get their hands on.
- hef19898 3y agoBut the guy on Youtube promised me that AI generated content would make me rich? /s
- neovialogistics 3y agoFew people are asking why such a large proportion of the public are easily scammed, a status which is different to prior eras. The answer isn't education, fyi.
- 15457345234 3y agoWhat is the answer, then?
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- jkoudys 3y agoYeah no.
- bendbro 3y agoNo yes.
- DonHopkins 3y agoAfter looking at your comment history and seeing your track record of being totally and consistently wrong, I'd say: definitely yeah no. And you replying "No yes" just makes it yeaher and noer. It's you, not "most people".
- bendbro 3y agoYour perspective is the product of a rebellious worldview two decades out of date. Your enemies are long dead and your ideas long purposeless. We've contorted ourselves legislating freedom to people who squander it. No group or force limits the common man anymore save himself and the state. People have shorter lives, less children, lower IQ, lower income, less friends, less wealth, less homes, and less happiness. Your system is broken and your answer is more of the same.
- jkoudys 3y agoThe cynic in me is upset at how easily exploited people are, but the optimist in me is happy at how overwhelmingly good most people are. There are scores of people out there (most of us included) who have the skills to pull something like this or the gpt4-written books thing who choose not to.
- uwagar 3y agoi cant find the link but maybe in the guardian, a similar scam regarding christmas fair / santa grotto was funny to read.
- adamauckland 3y agoLapland new forest 2008? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-11842396 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-11842396
- uwagar 3y agolol guess so, thanks! seems like history repeats itself!
- buggeryorkshire 3y agoEach year there's at least one 'winter wonderland' where the only entertainment is watching underpaid Elves smoking cigarettes behind a bin. It's a tradition at this point.
- userbinator 3y agoThis seems about as "not exactly as shown" as the video game box art of the 80s? Some examples: https://retrovolve.com/the-strange-and-wonderful-world-of-atari-box-art/ https://retrovolve.com/the-strange-and-wonderful-world-of-at... Look up the gameplay videos of any of those, and you may experience a similar feeling.
- xanderlewis 3y agoThis was true even into the Game Boy Advance era (so the early 2000s). Have a look at how the box art for Mario Kart: Super Circuit compares to the actual graphics. Admittedly, there was a general assumption that the box art (or even trailers) need not reflect the gameplay at all (and it was still a time when sufficiently high resolution graphics would be assumed to not be part of the actual game since it would be impossible), so there wasn't exactly much deception going on. But it could certainly still be disappointing if you're a child who doesn't quite know that. It's worth mentioning as well that the back of the box usually had some screengrabs to give an idea.
- karmakaze 3y agoI remember those boxes. For the most part the VCS/2600 was so popular that most everyone knew what was what and that the box art was just that: art. There were few exceptions such as the infamous E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Pac-man was also a bad looking port, but playable and a commercial success.
- cellu 3y agoI yet have to find a non-overhyped and eventually disappointing event in the UK, to be honest. The only thing you can be certain of, is that you’ll pay a lot.
- switch007 3y agoIncredibly accurate. I'd guess the rent/hire, wages and other costs for any event are so high, there's little left to make it a great experience Also we're extremely gullible and will throw good money at anything, so why would a business person put any effort in?
- greatgib 3y agoHonestly the Harry Potter studio tour near London is a very nice experience. And I'm not even particularly a fan of Harry Potter.
- ascorbic 3y agoI went to this with my kids a couple of weeks ago and it was incredible. https://www.wakethetiger.com/ https://www.wakethetiger.com/
- tim333 3y agoSecret cinema Bridgerton was good https://www.culturewhisper.com/r/cinema/secret_cinema_bridgerton_london_immersive/16404 https://www.culturewhisper.com/r/cinema/secret_cinema_bridge...
- bendbro 3y ago> While Generative AI can give everyone the confidence and the joy to create wonderful images, there is a big lesson in this story for all marketing teams: these tools must be used responsibly," she said This is the most disgusting thing I've read all week.
- Havoc 3y agoPeople are saying it’s a con by a fraudster but I get the sense that the organiser is potentially on the spectrum or otherwise at a disadvantage
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- lozenge 3y agoOne of the actors says the guy was just in over his head, but it isn't his first time organising a massively disappointing event! Making me think it is deliberate.
- andylynch 3y agoIt’s probably a bit of both; the same guy is a prolific ‘author’ of 1 star AI generated books on Amazon.
- mongol 3y agoYes me too. Even if it did not meet the expectations by far, there must have been effort going into it. Providing a lacklustre experience is not fraud. A true fraudster would not have bothered.
- hef19898 3y agoAs a side note, can we please stop using being on the spectrum as an excuse for everything?
- Havoc 3y agoWas not an excuse, just an observation. Would you have preferred a different phrasing?
- hef19898 3y agoNot sure how you conclude that the guy is on the spectrum: all I read is a guy using AI to create stuff with the goal of making a quick buco, no matter what. Whether or not he's on the spectrum is as relevant as wether or not he is Scotish, a man or has a beard or not. He sure seems like a shaddy person so.
- vr46 3y agoThis happened to be an egregiously-bad example of these cheap, padded-out, pop-up shows that are everywhere. Anything that isn't run by a major museum or gallery is highly suspect in my book. I recall a Tutankhamun show that I think had National Geographic's name slapped on it, somewhere in London Docklands, that was fairly lame, but nothing compared to the lameness of a Tutankhamun show going on in Hamburg right now which is mostly words printed on posters, with the main event being a large empty room with projections on all the walls. Barely amusing and mainly a good chance for a sit-down. Similarly, there's a fake-o Body Worlds show going on, a bullshit Terracotta Army show on, and there's clearly money to be made. The one experience I can remember that blew everything out of the water was the Millennium Dome in London, circa 2000, simply amazing and mind-blowing. I went twice. Truly amazing experiences like these cost a fortune and take a age, and require top-tier talent to put on. Just like a West End theatre production.
- creshal 3y agoApparently in Europe there's also a fake LotR/Harry Potter concert tour going on that stops mid-song half the time, because they haven't actually licensed the songs and are trying to muddle through with "fair use" (however that's even support to work here...)
- orwin 3y agoIf they are performing the songs live, they do not need a license in most european countries if it isn't recorded (not sure about UK though, i've heard its a bit weird up there for musicians). If they're just playing CDs, they might want to get a license, even with this "trick" that some bad DJs use. BTW: good/known scenes have a license to play, not just perform, music live, so even that would be weird.
- urbandw311er 3y agoWhat exactly was the exhibition at London’s millennium dome that you remember being so good? Or are you simply talking about the millennium dome itself, which ultimately became a bit of a national joke here in the UK, as nobody really knew what to do with it for a few years after the millennium. In the end, it got rebranded as the O2 Arena, and now it does fairly well for itself as a place to host, concerts and live shows etc.
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- locopati 3y agoPretty sure it didn't go wrong. The organizer got people's money on the cheap and that was the intention all along. It's pretty much the (im)moral of the 21st century.