"Who is Tilly Norwood? World’s first AI film star, Hollywood’s ‘next ScarJo’ debuts at Zurich Summit"
https://time.com/5497640/nancy-pelosi-chuck-schumer-split-podium/
Do you remember this video? Everyone thought it really felt off. It’s before anyone knew about AI or deep fakes but everyone said It felt really off. I suspect they were testing out AI technology at the time and wanted to see if people would fall for it
But the fear that AI will erase truth may miss a deeper point.
For decades we’ve leaned on video as if it were unquestionable — juries swayed by grainy footage, citizens persuaded by what they “saw” on the evening news. But video has always been a shortcut, and often a manipulative one.
Now AI forces us to confront that weakness. If “seeing is believing” no longer holds, we’ll have to do the harder work of corroboration and critical thinking. That’s uncomfortable, but it may sharpen our pursuit of truth rather than dull it.
And there’s an irony here: the cameras that once made us fear a “Big Brother is watching” world may lose their power, because AI makes even Big Brother’s footage suspect. The surveillance state only works if its evidence is trusted. AI may erode that trust, weakening the very authority that once seemed unassailable.
One positive is that Tilly Norwood will never be abused on one of hollywierd’s casting couches.
"Who is Tilly Norwood? World’s first AI film star, Hollywood’s ‘next ScarJo’ debuts at Zurich Summit"
If it’s on a screen it’s most likely manipulated sadly.
This is interesting as hell. I can’t wait to see how all this synthetic writing and acting turns out. It can be argued that it won’t be obvious in anyway since most of what we see is formulaic as hell and so not terribly original.
On that very orange something or other Mobile commercial I think the actress at a phonebank with the headset on is one of these “actresses”. Something about the way she animates looks jerky, like there are frames missing or something.
There was a movie with Al Pacino that came out in 2002 called SImOne, where an AI actress named Simone took Hollywood by storm. It was very funny, and pretty interesting.
We have wandered down a bad road here. Art is a human creation and, for me, one of the impressive things about good art is the human talent that produced it. The process is as important as the product. Tilly is a product, not a producer. She is a sophisticated cartoon. If I want a cartoon, I will stick with an honest one such as Bugs Bunny.
As far as AI’s potential impact on news and politics is concerned: imagine what someone such as Stalin could have done with AI.