Pet peeve: AI Slop creeping into stage shows
This is no detriment to the talented dancers and circus acrobats aboard the Scarlet Lady, whose stunts and choreography had me in awe.
But I had the misfortune to sit through the show Booked! which was an hour of the worst ChatGPT-generated script I’ve ever seen, complete with AI-generated stage backgrounds, AI slop voiceovers, and an AI hologram of Richard Branson!
Please, Virgin: you have a massive budget. You can afford to hire actual human scriptwriters and set designers. Don’t put your amazing stage performers through the humiliation ritual of such a terrible show written by a generative AI tool. And don’t have such low expectations of your audience: we’re not on boomer Facebook, you’re marketing these cruises to a younger audience and we can all tell when something is AI. It just feels lazy and low-quality.
EDIT: shoutout to all the more tech-savvy elderly out there- of course “boomer Facebook” is only a stereotype and I only used it as a throwaway reference to try and give the problem some more perspective. Not all elderly and not only elderly are AI slop consumers.