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    SAG-AFTRA Weighs in on AI Firestorm: ‘To Be Clear, “Tilly Norwood” Is Not an Actor’

    David GroveBy David GroveSeptember 30, 20253 Mins Read
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    SAG-AFTRA Weighs in on AI Firestorm: ‘To Be Clear, “Tilly Norwood” Is Not an Actor’
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    SAG-AFTRA has launched a press release September 30 roundly condemning synthetic intelligence expertise studio Xicoia’s buying of an AI actor named Tilly Norwood to the trade.

    Information broke from Deadline on the Zurich Summit on September 27 that Hollywood expertise brokers have been quietly circling Norwood for illustration. For the previous 5 months, Xicoia, launched by Dutch technologist Emily Van der Velden as a part of her firm Particle 6 Productions, has been soft-launching Norwood on Instagram.

    The studio has been posting headshots, candids, and even movement graphics of the AI performer, who takes the type of a dewy teenage lady who is meant to stay in London. Simply previously week, Xicoia has posted hypothetical, AI-generated screenshots of Norwood in a type of digital portfolio displaying the completely different movie initiatives she might seem in: There’s one in every of her in a dimly-lit thriller state of affairs, one in every of her on a subway (do AI characters want public transportation?), and one in every of her in a heat, candle-lit interval romance setting the place she seems to be having an emotional heart-to-heart with an object of her affection, her furrowed forehead conveying anguish.

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    Evidently, SAG-AFTRA sees this as an existential risk.

    “SAG-AFTRA believes creativity is, and will stay, human-centered. The union is against the alternative of human performers by synthetics,” the assertion from the union started.

    “To be clear,” the assertion continued, “‘Tilly Norwood’ shouldn’t be an actor, it’s a personality generated by a pc program that was educated on the work of numerous skilled performers — with out permission or compensation. It has no life expertise to attract from, no emotion and, from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t all in favour of watching computer-generated content material untethered from the human expertise. It doesn’t remedy any ‘drawback’ — it creates the issue of utilizing stolen performances to place actors out of labor, jeopardizing performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry.”

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    “Moreover, signatory producers ought to be conscious that they could not use artificial performers with out complying with our contractual obligations, which require discover and bargaining at any time when an artificial performer goes for use.”

    For the reason that Deadline report, the existence of Norwood has rankled many in Hollywood, together with Melissa Barrera, who posted on Instagram, “Hope all actors repped by the agent that does this, drop their a$$. How gross, learn the room.”

    Actor and mannequin Michael Aurelio tweeted, “Fairly telling that the industries first enterprise into this was to create a teenage lady they might management.”

    For her half, Van der Velden responded to the rising backlash by writing on Instagram, “To those that have expressed anger over the creation of my AI character, Tilly Norwood, she shouldn’t be a alternative for a human being, however a artistic work — a bit of artwork. Like many types of artwork earlier than her, she sparks dialog, and that in itself exhibits the ability of creativity.”

    “I see AI not as a alternative for folks, however as a brand new software, a brand new paintbrush. Simply as animation, puppetry, or CGI opened contemporary prospects with out taking away from stay performing, AI presents one other approach to think about and construct tales. I’m an actor myself, and nothing — definitely not an AI character — can take away the craft or pleasure of human efficiency.”





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