An entertainment company in Glasgow was charging 30 pounds a head this weekend for a “virtual Willy Wonka” experience that was billed as a fully immersive experience on par with the imagery from the book and movies.
When customers arrived, it turned out the promotional photos were all AI-generated and the actual experience was a sparsely decorated warehouse with cardboard props, matte backdrops, and a “lemonade river” that consisted of a card table with plastic soda cups on it.
The actors were also given an AI-generated script which made no sense, included dialogue and stage directions for the audience, called for physics-defying bubbles and lasers shooting out of people’s fingers and an actor being sucked up by a giant vacuum cleaner, and featured an evil monster called “the Unknown” that lives in the walls of Wonka’s factory and wants to steal an “Anti-Graffiti Gobstopper” thwt would allow him to (checks notes) stop children’s parents from cleaning their rooms.
It was such a disappointment that paying customers called the police and the event was shut down.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/28/travel/willy-wonka-inspired-experience-glasgow-intl-scli/index.html
I think we can safely say we don’t have to worry about AI taking away writer’s jobs just yet.