Netflix Uses AI-Generated Gene Wilder Voice in Wonka Show
Netflix is applying its Squid Game format to a Willy Wonka reality game show with AI-generated voiceovers of Gene Wilder. The family consented to the use by ElevenLabs to recreate his voice.
Tyler King23The voice in the trailer sounds exactly as poorly reproduced as you’d expect from ai impersonation. A professional voice imitator would have done a vastly better job.
Unimpressed by this timeline11Never before have I heard a TV pitch that made me want to throw up in my mouth
Higher Than Onix7I genuinely believe this should be illegal UNLESS the person explicitly consents to it. Opt-in or hands-off
Kuragari 7His family should be fucking ashamed. I don't believe Gene Wilder would have consented. What a dishonor to his memory.
Goofierbrute5It keeps getting worse the more you read of it.
Lander Vex, CSO, USS Hippogryph4There is a very earthly way of knowing which direction this show is going.
Ben Schwartz230If you're a movie star who's saying "over my dead body will i allow my voice to be used for ai," you better get it in writing.
abby (sports)15Tapping my “the people at ElevenLabs will not see heaven” sign
Sean12"The family consented..." they got paid & it's gross. Does Gene Wilder's family need money that badly?
Patrick Chovanec11Just as long as the children are all restored to their original state.
Serial Experiments Abigail9I genuinely do wonder sometimes if the fact that I find this painfully revolting and they don't is because something is wrong with me or because something is wrong with them
Chob8Come with me and you'll see a lack of pure imagination.
J.D. Buffington7Why not HIRE a soundalike? There are comedians and actors who have had major careers from their ability to impersonate. Very early on I thought a family giving permission for the use of a likeness or whatever might be okay, but with all the impropriety? It’s not safe, and dilutes a legacy.
Hirst 𝟜𝕎𝔻𝕚𝕤𝕔4This is absolute hell, like a listing from Charlie Brooker’s TV Go Home, nestled right between “Get Hen!” and “Cunt”. My hatred for this can’t be described with words, it goes beyond that, it’s just a noise.
Callie Dot Dot Dot4🎶 Come with me, and you’ll see, a world of uncanny valley animation 🎶
Absolute Jahn4How long before Gene WAIlder start talking about The Unknown and Charlie Kirk
Are there seriously no actors out there that can do a great Gene Wilder impression thats they could hire for that voiceover? And what’s even sadder is that it would’ve also been cheaper than whatever they paid the estate to make that AI voice.
Stefan Ellison8And in the trailer, it doesn't even sound anything like Wilder. It's the same annoying voice you hear in every AI video. Several actors have played Willy Wonka on screen and stage. They could absolutely hire a really great actor to do their own fun take on this iconic character.
Andy Mayer2They couldn’t get Timothee Chalamet or Johnny Depp or even JP Karliak?
my favorite part about this shitty ai Gene Wilder voice is they couldnt even get it to sound like him, instead it sounds like Pauly Shore or Vincent Price with a headcold. AI cant even do that right
Toon Brains9Netflix paying the wilder estate to be able to clone his voice using AI and they got a near death sounding Vincent Price voice instead. Bunch of fucking morons
🌌 ʐɛքɦ 🌌1God that sounds so bad
GᴀʀʀC1He sounds more like the late Paul Reubens to me (I REALLY hope they don't give his corpse the AI treatment, too 😖).
Willy Wonka competition series just dropped its first trailer featuring a AI voice of Gene Wilder (with permission from the Wilder estate). You know that had to cost a pretty penny! Check it out! parade.com/tv/the-golde...
gaslight gatekeep girldad31no thanks, i dont think i will
Dem18Sounds fuckin' gross and bad!
Austin Lee Matthews 🐭18Let the dead rest, you fucking ghouls.
FelineJay 🐈17Willing to bet "the Wilder estate" is owned by some money grabbing scum who's not even related to Gene Wilder, like the Tupac situation
ChrIs WIll14Wow, hiring Johnny Depp is the less awful option.
Steve Smotzer9I clenched my jaw in rage so hard I chipped a tooth.
🦷👁️Alex Rochon👁️🦷1076When I’m dead, if my estate ever signs over the rights to my voice to some corpo, I’m haunting them and their descendants til this planet burns up.
Morgan Lea329You know what makes this an extra layer of gross? Ideas like this are being conceived while actors are still alive. And these vultures are just waiting for them to be buried.
LittleKuriboh302Can we please put Netflix and the Wilder estate through the Wonka factory tour so they can be picked off one by one
Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGurl227how do I ensure that my "estate" does not do this to me after I die
The-Autistic-Artist 🥥 🍀 🏳️🌈 Doomsday and Coyote vs. Acme Era12To quote the REAL Gene Wilder from Young Frankenstein:
Lovely, Charming Zelda6Oompa Loompa doopity dash Throw this min the fucking trash
UncleAliVA🍉🔻6Another blatant act of techbased necromancy. Another act of techno heresy, an abominable affront to God and a mockery of life. Once again perpetrated by shameless dollar-sign eyed grubs who cannibalise and sabotage any opportunity to grow and shackle the industry to its nostalgia.
Aeron, The Gilded Dragon5.... Fuck AI. I want that bubble popped now.
Aurora5Take a drop In our slop It's a world of pure regurgitation This machine Eats your dreams Outsource your imagination
Hell-Bat, CE🔞 of Cranky Optimism5Nothing says "Happy centenary, Mel Brooks" quite like artificially desecrating one of his most beloved right-hand men AND having that right-hand man's entire family betray him in the process 👎🖕