the AI Willy Wonka Experience disaster 

I mean, one of (one of the Wonka actors) allegedly groomed one of his students. She came forward on TikTok.

They seem like such sweet people, I really hope they get paid properly and manage to spin this into a good start to a career.

I think they just got cheated as much as the kids did, and they really seemed as though they did whatever they could

Well, except for the one who is allegedly a groomer.

they will be just fine. they're making bank from this exposure.

the actors contracts were also ai i heard 😭

And an AI generated character to boot.

The Apology was also written by AI 😂

@@ambientexperience5793 I guess the organizers are ready to give their entire brains over to AI already!

She deserves to run her own event. No doubt she's got the sympathy at this point, and she would have known better now to run one on these than these producers. It could be called "The Can't Do Much Worse Than Willy McDuff Circus", or whatever she wants it to be. I think if it looked fun enough and she gave her genuine approval, it would work.

I get why that one trended because “haha miserable people funny” but I hope the other, happier pictures of her go just as viral or the virality of this one calms down a bit.

Some people who had great careers had hilarious starts. Just look up Kane's early wrestling gigs. 😂

the meth lab oompa loompa will always be in my head

Her and the other oompa loompa have been offered a few "celebrity bartender" gigs around Glasgow after this thing blew up. They'll be appearing in character at the local Horrorcon and handing out jellybeans

They should have gone with “house of shady business” … has a bit more of a ring to it

Undoubtedly AI generated as well

one of the of all time

apparently the owner sells books that rip off dan brown novels....so it was probably deliberate lmao

It is giving Ballpit Extra Hours

lmaoo 🤣 "International Garbage Fire Sensation" will be the name of my band 😌

@ville__thank you 🥹

@ville__ what the fuck are you on about

@@UhOphelia don’t feed the bot

@@UhOphelia He's a professional troll, don't engage.

That definitely checks out.

​@@danieltobin4498naw his checks bounce 😂

@ville__ no thanks. I’d rather die.

Holy shit, that’s cartoonishly evil

Yeeep. Sounds exactly on brand

_nooooooo_

I was wondering when comments about that would show up!!

It's amazing how mind-blowing in the worst possible way. It's been stuck in my head for days.

@ville__ homophobe get out of my replies

No go away ​@ville__

Good.

Bingo

Obviously. AI generated images aren't "democratizing art" like what AI bros says, it's more like mass production of "art".

i just don't understand these people that pay out money for events like this that they know nothing about. like I do research before I buy anything

I think the way it appropriated a well-known IP (especially one with a very recent release) also really helped launch it into the public consciousness

Basically any image he's used for anything has either been AI or stolen off other people wholesale, there were several other things he was caught stealing and claiming were made specially for the event

AI is already stealing, and you don't have any vision of your own, might as well keep stealing.

Well, she also just seems like a nasty person in general. Very vindictive, quick to lash out at anyone, defensive of predators, and ableist.

@@yoyohayli her one sided beef with Megan was insane, she needs serious help

It was pretty predictable actually, Nicki Minaj is a renowned piece of shit.

Right? Imagine having such a huge platform, and the funds, to uplift fellow creatives (huge opportunity to amplify voices in your community, whether that's poc or other minorities) by paying them for their work, but turning to cheap plagiarism tech instead. And in Nicki's case, she openly speaks out against AI models using her voice, but it's ok when she rips off visual artists? Ok...

​@@tom_j.Good thing megan is good and is part of Crunchyroll now

Is this the reason for which Swell took his exact thumbnail? I wonder....

I’m more of a cartchy tuns girl tbh

I believe that AI bros are delusional

Half of them are conspiracy books. With all the xenophobia expected of the genre.

Oh gosh I hate those. Some people are really drinking the AI kool-aid too hard

AI books that look like they were trained on specific authors/series, so they're bootlegs as well

What if AI has grown sentient and is tired of him, so it created this monstrosity to ruin his life

I'm sorry to hear that! I thought the ADA had rules for wheelchair accessibility. In a historical society near me, they use raised walkways to add ramps.

​@SenshiSunPower ADA, in practice, only applies to new buildings and renovations. Buildings built before the implementation of ADA are grandfathered and exempt unless renovations or modifications are made. However, if you can prove that bringing the building up to code would cause undo financial burden you can also become exempt.

For the props they could've just diy the materials for the props hell even when I make interactive immersions we just diy the black cloth that they have could've been used to hang wall decor

ah you missed an important key part: it was Tesco brand lemonade! they couldn't even make their own lemonade

@ville__ WHO CARES+ I CAN BEAT YOU IN A FIGHT BTW

Somehow the 9 month cruise swung by Scotland and she hopped off to catch this!

Let’s be real here, ai bros never valued artists in the first place.

I hate that cope excuse so much. What's stopping them from buying some paper and some pencils

God I hate when they claim people against AI art are ableist because AI art makes art “accessible”. And it’s like… no. I promise you there’s other methods of making art that doesn’t contribute to both pollution and exploitation of artists on the internet. Disabled artists are having their work used without consent in AI shit and a lot of them use things like commissions to make money. I wouldn’t mind AI art if everything it learned from was used with consent and you had to tell people it was made with AI. Also if how much it’s contributed to global warming (for the same reasons as cryptocurrency has) was brought down by a shit ton.

Does Google Translate steal from human translators?

Why are we making art more accessible tho???? As a visual artist I constantly tell ppl who wanna commission me that art is a luxury, not a necessity, and to worry about bills first . AI art as a short cut is worse than little/no art at all imo. Very shady.

"You realize all the apparent work went into details which don't matter at all." ... Am I a Machine-Based Neural Network? :v

ACTUALLY, a lot of real artists obsess over those tiny details. You only think they don’t matter because of ignorance. Look at the work of a lot of the renaissance masters. They’d go in with brushes as fine as a single hair. You may not be aware of off those seemingly trivial details, but they’re what elevate something from a fingerpainting to a piece that people will study and marvel at for centuries due to the intricacies of the small details. When you see people in art museum…which I’m sure you’ve never been to…getting close to paintings and looking hard at small random spots, they’re studying those tiny details that you only notice with a close, focused look. So using “you realize all the apparent work went into details which don't matter at all” as the way to determine AI from non-AI is as stupid as “if it has a glow filter of bokeh effect, it’s AI” when photographers buy expensive lenses to try to obtain those effects, and many digital artists like those effects. Your statement is the kind of statement leading to witch hunts right now, and it’s putting a lot of book cover artists out of business since too many of them are getting accused of using AI, even for covers finished before AI was consumer-level, and a simple accusation from ignorant people who want to be praised for “caring” about “real” artists is enough to destroy a career.

In case of generated images (it's not AI, speaking of wrong words) there are a lot of details, but they don't make sense from human perspective. Because machine doesn't know what world looks like and just figures "in a lot of art people do that and so it must be correct", which leads to stuff like several light sources where there logicaly should be one, extra fingers and teeth, disappearing and appearing out of nowhere limbs and stuff like that, depending on concrete picture. A lot of details in a drawing or painting is actually cool and doing them with purpose and achieving specific effect (where most artists would prefer illusion of details) is a very big fit, shame that current scam fad is trying to take it from people.

​@@NoelleTakestheSkywell and if they had really obsessed over tiny details they would have put the images into MS paint and fixed the gross text

​@@NoelleTakestheSky I think what OP means is that the level of detail is not consistent, which can lead to obvious mistakes in the less detailed areas. Like detail shouldn't come before form

honestly ? good for her let her make that paper for being part of that garbage event and also the most iconic photo of 2024

They held the event because it was more or less meant to be a scam in the first place, with the purpose of the event being held to say "we actually ran the event" in order to decrease the possible penalties against them. If they ran off with the money, they'd have law enforcement hunting them down 100%. If they refunded and canceled, then no money was earned. Holding the event meant that they could potentially decline refunds, and potentially have an argument of "we delivered the product" even if said product was not up to expectation for lawsuits against them It is a bit of a sunken cost thing, since canceling and refunding everyone was still an option. I really don't think this gamble is going to pay off, based on what I've been hearing

Amanda's right, tablecloths or even sheets of colored tissue paper would be a sign that they intended to decorate. No way this was an IP conflict.

I have been a part of things like this, working in entertainment. I'm not saying this is what happened here, but in my experience, usually it's things one by one not going right or getting done (especially within the budget), and the people in charge just keep saying "Okay, we'll figure it out. We'll ask actors to bring their own makeup and wardrobe. We'll just have snacks instead of catering." Etc. Sometimes the event plans start out reasonable, but then other people start getting involved and asking/suggesting for things to be added, and the answer from the people in charge is always "Yes! We can do that!", and it gets added to the list, with no additional budget. Before you know it, it's a week out from the event and nothing has been secured, and the people in charge finally acknowledge that there's a huge issue, but they REFUSE to cancel anything, or stop selling tickets. They REFUSE to postpone, to give discounts, to send out announcements that things that have been promised won't be delivered on, anything. Sometimes they come to their senses the day before the event and cancel it when there's 0 time left to reasonably let people know to cancel their plans and refund their money. But other times these idiots just order the team to put on the event and it's a complete trainwreck, and later they of course take no accountability and can't seem to understand why their overworked team couldn't put together an overdone event on a next-to-nothing budget. That's the part I just can't get over. They literally cannot comprehend beforehand that the event will be a dumpster fire, and people will be upset and ask for refunds, at the very least, and we will end up losing money. They are able to convince themselves despite all circumstances that they will save the day, even though they barely know what's going on. Sorry, just had to rant about it.

i love the unknown

and the script wasnt thrown out for trademark issues, it was thrown out because it was a bunch of nonsensical gibberish asking the audience to admire props and gadgets that didn't exist, called for Willy McDuff to perform real magic, and included stage directions and lines for the audience members.

​@@Woynich holy shit

​@@Woynich including incredible characters such as the "anti-grafitti gobstopper"!

truly a missed opportunity to make his surname macbeth

its phonetic how did this happen ahahah

If Wikipedia can be trusted, the Scottish Gaelic name of Fife is Fìobha, pronounced somewhat like FEE-va, so Amanda's pronunciation gets pretty close to the Scottish Gaelic name. I don't speak Scottish Gaelic, though.

@@notthatcreativewithnames I’m literally scottish but okay

⁠​⁠@@notthatcreativewithnames doesn’t really matter or apply in this situation, a very high majority of people in Scotland do not speak Gaelic. Its F-eye-f

Yes! I get bombarded with Shen Yu ads on a daily basis. Their advertising budget must be huge. I need her to go!

yes!! neeed someone to check that culty shit out.

noooo....!

Now you can be a wonkadoodle this year eh?

Love seeing people read that word!

gaslight catfish catgacate

This comment has me cackling 😂😂😂😂

i'm sorry to hear it ❤the sheer laziness of this whole AI grift has at least made many people howl with laughter, thank god

was coming here to write this😂

howling over the pronunciation

ok but if you read the CC on the home video section near the end, a good portion is captioned to "indistinct" 😂

Gold! comedy gold!

Go to hormy jaii.

there was a drag show where someone did a _the unknown_ costume on stage like TWO DAYS after the event, people are so creative and SO fast 😭

Ngl the concept of the Unknown is pretty scary. Why is he in the walls, let alone making chocolate in the walls. Why is he evil? Is the chocolate evil? I have so many questions

I'd love an episode based on this

I think it's cut and dry. Super rich but doesn't want to use her money to support other people.

I know right! As soon as the news broke, my 1st thought was Swell.

At least it wasn't in Milngavie. Or Finzean.

Sad Oompa Loompa and the Unknown will hopefully be remembered in 9 months when Halloween rolls around

“sweet teats” had me HOWLING

​@@manic_girlCARTCHY TUNS

The Phoenix zoo had the same kind of exhibit last year! My bf and I went, it was so cool!

Yeah I went to that a while back and I actually really enjoyed it.