How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?
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Re: How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?
#2Why blame the ai when in fact it was poorly executed obviously with insufficient budget?
Re: How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?
#3Why blame the ai when in fact it was poorly executed obviously with insufficient budget?
AI 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.
Re: How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?
#4Why blame the ai when in fact it was poorly executed obviously with insufficient budget?
I 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."
Re: How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?
#5Why blame the ai when in fact it was poorly executed obviously with insufficient budget?
AI 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.
Wonder what a GenAI poster based on a description of Fyre Festival looks like...
Re: How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?
#6Why blame the ai when in fact it was poorly executed obviously with insufficient budget?
Where 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.
Re: How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?
#7Why blame the ai when in fact it was poorly executed obviously with insufficient budget?
I 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."
Fraudsters never had any problems doing that in the pre-generative AI era.
Re: How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
AI 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.
Wonder what a GenAI poster based on a description of Fyre Festival looks like...
A 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.
Re: How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?
#9Few 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.
Re: How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?
#10Few 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.
What is the answer, then?