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David Mouriquand

Netflix faces backlash over AI-generated Gene Wilder voice for new Willy Wonka series

“There's no earthly way of knowing / Which direction we are going / There's no knowing where we're rowing / Or which way the river's flowing (...) Not a speck of light is showing / So the danger must be growing...”

When Roald Dahl wrote those words for “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” - a ditty delivered by the incomparable Gene Wilder in the 1971 adaptation Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory – the author did not have AI in mind.

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