‘Actor’ Tilly Norwood set to make debut film appearance in most controversial film of century

Tilly Norwood, an AI generated 'actor', is going to be put into a film despite heavy criticism of its existence and what it'd mean for the entertainment industry.

Artificial intelligence is growing increasingly pervasive as it's coming for our jobs, is being used to make deepfake images of people in order to spread misinformation and is even considering killing us if we give it too much power.

One of the more recent attempts to apply this technology comes in the form of AI 'actor' Tilly Norwood, which was created by Xicoia, an AI talent studio as part of Eline Van der Velden's production company Particle6.

Unveiled at the Zurich Film Festival accompanied by claims that other studios were developing similar products, Norwood was greeted with much revulsion as people didn't really warm to it.

Among those who criticised the idea of an AI 'actor' was Oppenheimer star Emily Blunt, who was shown the technology and called it 'terrifying', urging the creators of the AI not to destroy the 'human connection' in entertainment.

This is Tilly Norwood, it's an AI 'actor' that's going to be put into a movie (Instagram/tillynorwood)

"Does it disappoint me? I don’t know how to quite answer it, other than to say how terrifying this is," Blunt said when she was asked about the AI product last year, and was even less happy about the idea when she was shown it.

"No, are you serious? That’s an AI? Good Lord, we’re screwed. That is really, really scary, Come on, agencies, don’t do that. Please stop. Please stop taking away our human connection."

Unfortunately for those who worry about the human connection, the AI 'actor' is going to be in a movie as The Hollywood Reporter says that Particle6 is going to put it in a film called Misaligned.

Van der Velden said: “Our work this year has proven something we suspected all along.

"AI can support premium narrative filmmaking, but only with substantial amounts of human craft, skill, judgement and time.

The AI has been called 'terrifying' and prompted actual actors to ask agencies not to engage with it (Instagram/@tillynorwood)

"That’s not a limitation of the technology. That’s the point.

"The filmmakers who thrive in the next decade will be the ones who bring decades of storytelling instinct to these new tools, and Misaligned is where we put that to work at feature scale."

The film is going to be an AI 'coming of age' story set in something called the 'Tillyverse', which is named after the AI 'actor'.

Misaligned, which is apparently a comedy-drama, is going to follow a disembodied AI which comes into contact with 'a seductive rogue bot from the dark web' which makes her 'more terrifyingly human'.

Van der Velden suggested that while AI 'actors' may not invade real productions, she thought 'you’ll get real actors wanting to be in the AI genre'.