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.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?
Our society is long overdue giving con men the ass kicking they deserve.
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 kid’s afternoons (but when those grown kids are dying from capitalist made climate change induced Cat 6 superstorms, or hungry from the associated crop failures, or the scammers successfully lobby to catch yet another tax break out of the asses of those kid’s education funding using their unlimited exploitation bucks, 🤷). It might be cathartic to kick their ass, but it’s odd and inconsistent to the extreme considering how comfortable we are with our most prolific con-men being allowed to own, and keep!.. everything, every exploited, scammed dollar, instead of getting their ass kicked as you say.
I agree. We need a new saying that parallels “One death is a tragedy, one million deaths are a statistic.”
Fair enough
Back to the days of running the snake oil salesmen out of town tarred and feathered?
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.
I feel like there’s much better food for the same price around
Yes. Yes you are.
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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 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 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 from intentionally dishonest marketing hype correctly.So please, do continue telling me more about the magnitude of these microcapitalist’s microscam.
sits in Wonka meme pose.
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!
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.
I know people don’t read articles, but at least scroll down to the picture of “an Oompa Loompa running a meth lab”
The look in that poor girls eyes
Speaking to MailOnline, she confirmed that not only had she not been paid she also hadn’t been briefed on what her role would involve. She explained: ‘I was angry at the time because I felt like this is embarrassing for me, and I felt bad for the people coming in as well. I actually ended up shouting at the guy. I just said to him he’s a joke and this is like embarrassing, and how can we basically live with himself, doing this to people. This is really embarrassing for me. My job is teaching kids yoga and I go into schools and stuff and I do kids’ entertainment. This is none of our faults at all. We got the job and then we got given the script. By that point I’d signed a contract and they said they were going to put us £500 for the two days which is a lot of money which is a lot of money to say no to.’
I saw the meme yesterday before I knew about this and was confused haha
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?
Please let this Willy Wonka warehouse extra teach you about how to be business savvy.
You see, this was an intentional case-study in business failures, meant to exemplify the problems with using AI to replace every aspect of our lives. You might even call it art.
So avant garde! Oh my!
See, what I was thinking when I was reading the article was imagine if you kept doing these events to turn people against AI and change the story of its capabilities, maybe even hurting its market share and it’s potently. I’d be about that
Hey now! Having an AI generate a Willy Wonka live production is part of getting the certification in some territories!
Matt Foley was a Life Coach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2VIEY9-A8
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
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.
Apparently they were given the script only a day before. And on the day of, they were told to just let people walk through, and improvise. Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/galleries/article-13134989/Embarrassed-Oompa-Loompas-actresses-Wonka-scam-talks.html
What a shame. The set pieces look great, but obviously look out of place on a concrete floor. I feel bad for all the actors involved.
Which srt pieces look great? All the ones I’ve seen so far look like shit.
Or, well, neighborhood Halloween party-level at best.
Is ai even to blame for the bad script? Because if a human being wrote it with the same effort and care applied to every aspect of this it’d still be terrible.
I’m not even saying ai can write as well as a person at the half ass level, but this isn’t even there
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Imagine hosting an event so lame that it makes international news solely because of how incredibly lame it was. Just damn.
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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.
From what I understand the Jurassic world one was actually really good and they put in the effort
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
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.
Yeah, they added a lot over the years. My above experience was from like 8 years ago when I’m pretty sure it was just Central Perk.
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.
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…
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”).
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.
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)”
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
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
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.
The only way this would have worked is if everyone had been given a little tab of lsd.
They only had enough in their budget to give LSD to all the organizers
Wow. This feels like a terrific future gameshow quiz topic:
"Given the following true news story, was the complete failure of this effort later attributed to:
- A. Half-assing it with artificial intelligence
- B. Half-assing it while on too many or too few drugs
- C. Both
"
It’s Glasgow mate, you’re not allowed to mix it with heroin.
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.
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