Tilly Norwood is a London -based actress with about 40,000 Instagram fans. Also not real – it’s A character created by AI Created by Xicoia, the AI section of the Productive Company.
Eline Van Der Velden, the Dutch producer who founded Particle6, introduced Norwood’s idea at the Zurich Film Festival in September. Van der Velden is at the moment Looking for an agent To represent Norwood, who has gathered strong reactions from Hollywood.
Actress Emily Blunt – known for her roles in films such as “The Devil Wears Prada”, “A Quiet place” and “Oppenheimer” – discovered about Norwood When recording a podcast with variety.
“Good gentleman, we are screwed. That’s really, really scary,” Blunt Variety said. “Come on, agencies, don’t do this. Stop. Stop moving away our human connection.”
SAG-AFTRA, the Union representing entertainment and media professionals, released a statement Unlike synthetic performers such as Norwood.
“To be clear,” Tilly Norwood “is not an actor, it is a character created by a computer program trained in the work of countless professional performers-without license or compensation,” Sag-Aftra writes. “He has no life experience to draw from, no emotion and, from what we have seen, audiences are not interested in watching the content created by a computer and to say goodbye to human cultivation.
Due to the reaction, Van der Velden wrote a answer Post to the Tilly Norwood Instagram account.
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“He is not a replacement for a man, but a creative work – a work of art, like many forms of art in front of her, causes conversation and this shows in itself the power of creativity,” writes Van Der Velden.
But real human actors are skeptical of the consequences of AI that can create believable videos, which has become even more real this week with the release of Sora 2 of Openai. That is why organizations such as SAG-AFTRA and America’s Guild Writers have supported contractual protection against AI replacement.
“Producers should know that they cannot use synthetic interpreters without complying with our contractual obligations, which require alert and negotiation whenever a synthetic performer is to be used,” Sag-Aftra writes.
