Just when you thought Hollywood couldn’t get any weirder, an AI-generated actor now has a real agent competing for jobs.
Tilly Norwood is an all-digital actress whose creator, Particle6, is having serious trouble getting her represented. Eline Van der Velden, CEO of the artificial intelligence company behind Tilly, tried to play it down, calling the creation “a work of art” and not a replacement for humans.
Norwood appeared in one YouTube video from Particle6and she instagram account It currently has nearly 60,000 subscribers. A parody account with a similar name. also appeared.
It’s no surprise that real Hollywood actors aren’t having fun. IF reported by varietyStars get upset at the thought of competing with an algorithm. Actress Melissa Barrera put it bluntly instagram accounttells each agent to sign up for an AI tool that “reads the room” and that he expects his human clients to “lose their money.”
The entertainment industry is wondering if artificial intelligence tools will replace humans. Artificial intelligence is a major issue in actors’ strikes, and earlier this year a group of Hollywood actors filed a petition to ban AI training for copyrighted works.
Particle6 has been criticized over the issue of traditional Hollywood representation of agents of AI creations. Van der Velden recently announced that the company will set up an agency to create artificial intelligence. called Xicoia. However, this does not mean that the big agency would stop representing its AI-based creations in traditional ways.
In a post on social media, Van Der Velden said: “I also believe that AI characters should be judged as part of their own genre, on their own merits, rather than being directly compared to human actors.”