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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

WTF is ‘Tilly Norwood’ ?



The emergence of ‘Tilly Norwood’, the promotional ‘AI actress’, created by Eline Van der Velden, has US film actors’ union SAF/AFTRA freaking out, releasing a statement on behalf of their 170,000 members:


According to SAG/AFTRA:


‘‘Tilly Norwood’ is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation. 


“It has no life experience to draw from, no emotion and, from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience. 


“It doesn’t solve any ‘problem’ — it creates the problem of using stolen performances to put actors out of work, jeopardizing performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry.” 


 “Signatory producers should be aware that they may not use synthetic performers without complying with our contractual obligations…


“…which require notice and bargaining whenever a synthetic performer is going to be used.”


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