Published on
01/07/2026 - 8:48 GMT+2
“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.
Still, his nightmarish little poem seems fitting considering the way artificial intelligence is plaguing the artistic world and how it stands as one of its biggest existential threats.
