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Wahots ,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

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.

Garyx23x ,

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

Agent641 ,

Therqpist: "The evil chocolate maker in the walls isn't real, he can't hurt you!"

Me: gestures to this article

PeterPoopshit ,

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

set_secret ,

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.

cmhe ,

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.

negativeyoda ,

The head guy self published something like a dozen AI generated books that he's selling on Amazon too

Zozano ,

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.

ArmokGoB ,

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.

lolcatnip ,

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!

MrsDoyle ,

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.

ElderWendigo ,
@ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works avatar

More like...

"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"

"Charlie Kelly and the Chocolate Factory"

tegs_terry ,

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.

stringere ,

This isn't an episode already?

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

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?

sarcasticsunrise ,
@sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world avatar

Moist Critikal's video on this was a banger

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

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

yukiat ,
@yukiat@lemmy.world avatar

Yup, that's the correct video.

TubeTalkerX ,

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

J12 ,

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.

ShepherdPie ,

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

Said the AI generated article.

LemmyKnowsBest ,

would AI spell "dismal" wrong?

Gradually_Adjusting ,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

If you told it to include human like errors yeah

j4k3 ,
@j4k3@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Nollij ,

I'm not even sure a person would spell it that wrong.

Texas_Hangover ,

I could do it after 6 or 8 beers I'm sure.

NinePeedles ,

Light weight

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

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?

TwilightVulpine ,

Our society is long overdue giving con men the ass kicking they deserve.

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

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.

TwilightVulpine ,

Fair enough

Rolando ,

I agree. We need a new saying that parallels "One death is a tragedy, one million deaths are a statistic."

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Back to the days of running the snake oil salesmen out of town tarred and feathered?

fidodo ,

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.

AllonzeeLV , (edited )

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 customer mark 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.

fidodo ,

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.

AnUnusualRelic ,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

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!

veroxii ,

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.

caseyweederman ,

They tasted like the pictures too!

Timbits ,

Pulpy and full of ink.

fd_nomad ,

I feel like there's much better food for the same price around

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Yes. Yes you are.

AstralPath ,

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.

roguetrick ,

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.

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