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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

Tilly Norwood: how scared should we be of the viral AI ‘actor’?

an AI generated actor on a red carpet
Tilly Norwood. Illustration: YouTube, generated by AI

It takes a lot to be the most controversial figure in Hollywood, especially when Mel Gibson still exists. And yet somehow, in a career yet to even begin, Tilly Norwood has been inundated with scorn.

This is for the simple fact that Tilly Norwood does not exist. Despite looking like an uncanny fusion of Gal Gadot, Ana de Armas and High School Musical-era Vanessa Hudgens, Norwood is the creation of an artificial intelligence (AI) talent studio called Xicoia. And if Xicoia is to be believed, then Norwood represents the dazzling future of the film industry.

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