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SAG-AFTRA slams AI “actor” Tilly Norwood as synthetic and soulless

Jason Weisberger
Sep 30, 2025
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SAG-AFTRA has condemned AI-generated “Tilly Norwood,” arguing that she lacks real emotion, life experience, or legitimacy in performance. It also probably costs the world a rainforest for every 5 minutes of “performance.”

“To be clear, ‘Tilly Norwood’ is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countl…

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