Last weekend, organizers of an event in Scotland dubbed the ‘Willy Wonka Experience’ tricked unsuspecting parents into taking their children to a real DMSEAL event. Clearly generated by AI Marketing materials.
The $44-per-ticket experience turned out to be a dingy warehouse near downtown Glasgow, sparsely populated with cheap props, and nowhere near the fantastical scenery dreamed up by the AI.
And as more details emerge, it seems like the failure of this event is closely related to AI. In fact, officials are now saying that even the characters’ scripts were generated by AI.
Local actor and comedian Paul Connell shared on TikTok how he was hired as one of Willy Wonkas’ three people (not just one) tasked with entertaining children at events. explained.
“Instead of getting Timothee Chalamet, they got Timothée Charlatan,” Connell said of the actor who recently starred in the film adaptation of “Wonka.”
Connell said in the video that his script appeared to consist of “mostly AI-generated gibberish.”
“One of my favorite lines was, ‘There’s a man who lives here, and his name is unknown, so we call him Unknown,'” he recalled. Ta. “The Unknown is an evil chocolatier who lives within the walls.”
Even more mysteriously, the AI predicted in its script that visitors would react enthusiastically to the wonders around them.
Another script, published by original author Seamus O’Reilly in Bluesky, is equally puzzling, with O’Reilly writing that the stage direction was directed “in detail and precisely how the audience would like it.”Original PDF was shared by a British tabloid of daily mail.
The script reads: “The audience pays tribute to the interactive flower, which responds with a whimsical pre-recorded thank you.”
“The scene ends with laughter and joy filling the air as the audience is fully immersed in an interactive and magical experience.”
As is clear in hindsight, nothing of the sort happened and the event was a catastrophic failure. The children cried and their parents called the police. An image of an actor went viral as ‘Meth Lab Oompa Loompa’.
This event is a wake-up call for entertainers looking to cut corners with AI tools. Sure, AI can produce fantastic images and effortless dialogue, but if your audience calls you “BS,” the backlash can be quite embarrassing.
Either way, the creators behind the event seem woefully unprepared. For example, in a follow-up video, Connell recalls being asked to “suck up the Unknown with a giant vacuum cleaner.”
Connell was completely blindsided after being interrupted by an organizer who did not give him a vacuum cleaner and was told to “impromptu” instead.
“You either have a vacuum cleaner or you don’t have a vacuum cleaner,” he said.
Connell wasn’t the only actor surprised that props promised in the script didn’t actually exist.
“There were parts of the script that I thought looked really good because there was supposed to be an interactive element,” she said. daily mail. “There was a part in the script where when the character touched the grass, he started laughing, and I thought, oh, there’s a sensor in the grass, that’s going to be amazing.”
“There was supposed to be a bubble machine, there was supposed to be a projector, there was supposed to be a lot more that was promised,” Fogerty added.
The House of Illuminati is run by Billy Cole, who has self-published 17 books on Amazon that are also likely generated by AI.
as rolling stone Kuhl, who appears to be the company’s only official employee, has since deleted many of his social media accounts, including a YouTube and LinkedIn profile in which he claimed to be a business-savvy life coach, according to reports.
Dust is still settling. Connell said many, if not all, of the actors who were promised hundreds of dollars in fees have yet to be paid.
The company has since promised to refund customers, but it remains to be seen whether everyone will actually receive a refund.
It turns out that the Willy Wonka disaster not only made innocent children cry, but also caused great embarrassment for the actor, and Connell resorted to downplaying his experience.
“It was a fantasy world in that I had to imagine it wasn’t a dirty warehouse,” Connell joked in his video.
Scam details: The AI-generated “Willy Wonka Experience” turned into a tragic situation in real life, so it was reported to the police
