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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?

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Post by dredmorbius »

neovialogistics wrote: post #9

Few 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.

I'm going to strongly question your presumption that present populations are more scammable than those past.

Re: How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?

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Post by kzrdude »

evrflx wrote: post #2

Why blame the ai when in fact it was poorly executed obviously with insufficient budget?

Seeing 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.

Re: How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?

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Post by jkoudys »

The 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.

Re: How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?

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Post by rwmj »

bawolff wrote: post #7
smcin wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It makes it easier now, that doesn't mean it was impossible before.

Re: How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?

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Post by praptak »

defrost wrote: post #8
smcin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Have you considered applying for an AI Prompt Engineer job?
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