{"id":5660,"date":"2025-10-02T20:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/creator-ai-actress-responds-backlash\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T20:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:14:44","slug":"creator-ai-actress-responds-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/creator-ai-actress-responds-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Creator of \u201cAI Actress\u201d Responds to Near-Universal Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Are moviegoers ever going to accept films created using AI? And just as importantly, will the creatives who work in the industry be cool with letting the tech play a heavy role in the filmmaking process?<\/p>\n

The bitter response to a new \u201cAI actress\u201d suggests that the answer to both questions, at least for now, is a ringing \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the creator of the digital acting persona named \u201cTilly Norwood\u201d defended her brainchild after pretty much everyone said they hated it \u2014 including, most notably, actors.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo those who have expressed anger over the creation of my AI character, Tilly Norwood, she is not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work \u2014 a piece of art,\u201d Eline Van der Velden, founder of the AI firm Particle 6 Productions, said in a statement<\/a> posted to Instagram. \u201cLike many forms of art before her, she sparks conversation, and that in itself shows the power of creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Norwood\u2019s turn in the crosshairs comes as major film studios have eagerly rushed to sign deals with AI firms. The past year alone has seen generative AI effects used in a number of high profile films, ranging from \u201cAlien: Romulus<\/a>\u201d to \u201cThe Brutalist<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The AI character sparked fierce backlash last week when Van Der Velden claimed that her recently formed AI \u201ctalent studio\u201d Xicoia was in talks with agents who were interested in signing it. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be announcing which agency is going to be representing her in the next few months,\u201d she teased, per Deadline<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

An AI puppet being considered an \u201cactress\u201d is controversial in itself. But talking up the AI character as an actual performer that\u2019s getting signed seemed to feel like too tangible a threat to real actors, who fought for landmark AI protections in the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike that shut down Hollywood for nearly half a year. <\/p>\n

\u201cNot an actress actually,\u201d wrote young TV star Nicholas Alexander Chavez in response to the news.\u00a0 \u201cNice try.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd what about the hundreds of living young women whose faces were composited together to make her?\u201d asked actress Mara Wilson, best known for her titular role in the 1996 film \u201cMatilda.\u201d \u201cYou couldn\u2019t hire any of them?\u201d<\/p>\n

Veteran character actor Ralph Ineson summed up the general feeling in a viral tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cF*ck off,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Herself a comedian and actress, Van der Velden tried to address the actors\u2019 backlash by claiming Norwood isn\u2019t here for their jobs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see AI not as a replacement for people, but as a new tool, a new paintbrush,\u201d she wrote in the statement.<\/p>\n

Van der Velden added that AI characters \u201cshould be judged as part of their own genre,\u201d instead of being compared to human actors. \u201cShe represents experimentation, not substitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

This did little to strengthen her case.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo say that this is not an attempt to replace human beings is stupid and a crock of sh*t,\u201d wrote actor Abraham Lim, replying to Van der Velden\u2019s statement. \u201cThe existence of \u2018Tilly,\u2019 its possibly signing with an agency, its use in any production \u2014 those acts, in and of themselves, replace other actors and actresses.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fair point. If Van der Velden\u2019s creation is neither replacing humans nor should be judged by the same standards as them, why is it being hyped up in overtly anthropomorphic terms? She\u2019s calling Norwood an \u201cAI actress,\u201d not a digital character. It\u2019s represented by an \u201cAI talent studio,\u201d not a tech firm. Norwood has \u201cher\u201d own Instagram page where she masquerades as a typical influencer or celebrity.<\/p>\n

Van Der Velden says her creation \u201csparks conversation,\u201d but this isn\u2019t an indicator of creativity or artistic merit. In this case, that conversation was a near- universal outpouring of anger. That doesn\u2019t tell us anything unique or insightful. It just means that no one liked it. Also, there are ways of pulling off a stunt like this that don\u2019t involve actually getting an AI \u201csigned\u201d by agents or studios, directly imperiling the livelihood of flesh and blood talent.<\/p>\n

And if Norwood represents \u201cexperimentation,\u201d then it\u2019s certainly not the artistic kind. Everyone knows that AI can dream up eerie imitations of humans. Aping the human form, and the art we create, is its whole point. Putting an \u201cAI actress\u201d out there \u2014 which is blandly photorealistic and safely adheres to conventional beauty standards \u2014 doesn\u2019t even feel experimental in any meaningful way. It simply reinforces the tech\u2019s ability to generate boring simulacrum, and in so doing, make everyone whose creative output it averaged out into an algorithm-driven slush feel very uncomfortable about their future.<\/p>\n

More on AI:<\/strong> Lionsgate\u2019s Attempt to Create Movies Using AI Has Crumbled Into Disaster<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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