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title: "Willy Wonka Experience Glasgow: a metaphor for the overpromises of AI?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/willy-wonka-experience-glasgow-a-metaphor-for-the-overpromises-of-ai--mawoz1czo
source_url: https://venturebeat.com/ai/willy-wonka-experience-glasgow-a-metaphor-for-the-overpromises-of-ai/
type: article
source: "Venture Beat"
published: 2024-02-28T16:55:32.825Z
updated: 2026-05-21T02:13:16.237Z
tags: ["ai", "ai-image-generation", "azure", "bots", "business", "conversational-ai", "genai", "microsoft", "midjourney", "nlp", "openai"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 6
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Willy Wonka Experience Glasgow: a metaphor for the overpromises of AI?

**[Venture Beat](https://daily.dev/sources/venturebeat)** · 5 min read · 6 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

The Willy Wonka Experience Glasgow, advertised with AI-generated images, turned out to be a disappointment. This raises concerns about the use of AI imagery to deceive customers. Other examples of AI failures in the real world have also been observed recently.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@sparkhum** · 0 upvotes

> This whole thing is such a mess...and then the goofy AI is just the cherry on top.

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