There's a new face in Hollywood, generated by AI

[YoshidaYui]

Tilly Norwood | Take The Lead (Official Music Video)

AI 'actress' Tilly Norwood to star in feature film

[Delphinus]

1. I wonder how

the guy who designed the Cup of Jo would feel about not being needed for his expertise.

[Cirsium]

2. I don't understand

Don't we already have actors? Why create fake ones?

[haele]

4. You pay the creator once. And then pay for servers to host the "actor".

Cheaper than all the contract negotiations, potential bad press from bad activity, praying out royalties, whatever.
And the AI actor will only do what they're prompted to do, won't complain about re-takes, won't have hissies on set, or especially not balk if "asked" to do nude scenes or soft-core. Or whatever else the producer might want them to do.

[Cirsium]

5. Right

Who needs humans? They are such a pain.

A world without people might be lonely, but it sure would be convenient. How maddening it must be to invest billions in Amazon warehouse automation, only to have to slow down or (gasp!) stop the machines so that the workers who serve as "humans in the loop" can stop to pee! Isn't there some way we can make that their problem, not ours?

With AI, the fact that you need to pee – or get paid – does become your problem, rather than your boss's. After the majority of your colleagues have been fired ("because AI will do their jobs&quot , you become painfully aware that there are plenty of people who need your job, who will happily step in to take it if you complain too much about your bladder or your paycheck.

Even better is when the "human in the loop" can be outsourced to a company overseas, which allows bosses to simply set-and-forget a set of requirements for how the human part of the AI's labor is to be done without ever having to meet or even think about those workers' conditions. This is the illusion of full automation, in which the AI does the job "like magic."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/10/posthuman-as-in-no-humans/

[calimary]

3. Uh-oh...

Best friend is an actress. I wonder how many jobs she’ll wind up losing because of this.

For producers and others who find this interesting (and CHEAPER), I guess it’s the way to save money. So you can put all the money into special effects or expensive locations or something.

[haele]

6. I rather wonder how it will go, if the "owner" of the AI model decides to up their price for use...

Because you know "Tilly" will probably be tightly containerized and only be added to most scenes in post production as a copy roll, not as the model itself. There's no way the creator or studio the AI "Actor" belongs to will let the model be online out in the wild, as it were.
Cheaper knock-offs would be a major concern to the creator or studio.

[highplainsdem]

7. That AI cartoon will bomb. It did a live interview recently and the size of the head kept changing.