AI actor Tilly Norwood's world is expanding with the 'Tillyverse'

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The digital world of the first AI actor, Tilly Norwood, is expanding.AI talent studio Xicoia, which created Norwood, has announced plans for a “rapid expansion” for the digitized actor.The developments include a digital universe dubbed the “Tillyverse,” where ”Tilly and a new generation of AI characters will live, collaborate and build careers.”The London-based company responsible for creating emotionally intelligent, hyperreal AI personas said it’s focused on more than experimenting with AI actors.

It plans to build its own intellectual property and change “how talent is created, developed and experienced in the AI era.” “Together, we’re building something entirely new.Tilly Norwood isn’t just an AI character — she’s a personality, a brand, and a future global superstar with a compelling narrative arc,” Xicoia Chief Executive Eline van der Velden said in a news release.

Movies Synthetic performers are forcing Hollywood to rethink how fame works and who gets to claim it.Even as the technology races ahead, legal concerns are mounting.Norwood was launched last fall.

Upon its introduction, many Hollywood actors, including Emily Blunt, Whoopi Goldberg and Natasha Lyonne, spoke out against the bot.Though Norwood has yet to star in a major project, the fear of AI-generated characters replacing actors and taking jobs is widespread.Previously, actors union SAG-AFTRA’s president, Sean Astin, also criticized the bot, saying, “It manipulates something that already exists, so the conceit that it isn’t harming actors — because it is its own new thing — ignores the fundamental truth that it is taking something that doesn’t belong to them.”The development deepens union anxieties more than two years after concerns about the use and misuse of artificial intelligence led to back-to-back strikes.SAG-AFTRA reentered contract negotiations with the major ...