Posted on 09/29/2025 1:28:05 PM PDT by Red Badger
Will the new AI character be the death of human performers in movies?
Hollywood may soon be filled with falling human stars and rising AI starlets.
Film director Alfred Hitchcock, the ‘master of suspense’, once said ‘all actors must be treated like cattle’ – but if you think that’s bad, brace yourselves for the brave new world we’re living in, where actors won’t even exist as such, anymore.
The creation of AI ‘actress’ Tilly Norwood has generated a massive wave of backlash over the unsurprising news that ‘talent agents’ were already lining up to sign the ‘digital character’.
Tilly Norwood seens as a threat by Hollywood actors.
Variety reported:
“’To those who have expressed anger over the creation of my AI character, Tilly Norwood, she is not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work – a piece of art. Like many forms of art before her, she sparks conversation, and that in itself shows the power of creativity’, Eline Van der Velden wrote in a statement on Instagram, also posted on Norwood’s own Instagram page.
‘I see AI not as a replacement for people, but as a new tool, a new paintbrush. Just as animation, puppetry, or CGI opened fresh possibilities without taking away from live acting, AI offers another way to imagine and build stories. I’m an actor myself, and nothing – certainly not an AI character – can take away the craft or joy of human performance’.”
Van der Velden has said earlier that ‘talent agents’ had been circling the ‘AI character’ and she expects that an agency will be chosen to represent it (not ‘her’) in the next few months.
A multitude of actors have protested the development. Are they fighting for sanity, or are they falling stars overcome by technical developments like Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard?
Gloria Swanson as ageing silent picture star Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.
According to Hollywood Reporter:
“Over the weekend, a host of actors responded to the news that agencies were circling Norwood. The threat of AI has long haunted industry creatives, and regulations around the craft became a linchpin clause through the SAG-AFTRA strikes of 2023.
Notable uses of AI in film and television include the de-aging of certain actors or generating complex visual effects, but fears concerning AI’s ability to replace actors – or illegally use their likeness – have continued to creep up on Hollywood.”
Some of these AI babes are better looking than the real thing.
It looks BORING
Her pronouns are π / φ / ƒ(X)
The “casting couch” is never going to be the same!
She’s a 3π!
Laz would click it.
OR Simone.
Same for the battle scenes of 1960s war movies as compared to the preposterous battle scenes of Lord of the Rings.
I can’t stand watching CGI. All that AI stuff is creepy as hell. I’ll stick to TCM.
Shouldn’t the initials be “AI”?
Yep I’ve been saying for months, that pretty soon Hollywood would be all AI actors with AI Scripps, and AI sets. The production companies will market them just like they were real people and people will have their favorite AI stars. Human actors will be all sent back to doing on-street theater with cin boxes in in front of them or actual live theater for the bigger names with some actual acting talent that don’t take 20 different cuts to get the scene right
Nah. A 2πR at best.
All communistic terms.
remember my constant crying... “Fake Pictures = Fake News”??
Well... here ya go.....
On the contrary, that's a pretty nice rack:
Oh, wait... Fits. Sorry.
What I’m waiting for is the time that I see AI versions of John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara or Doris Day and Rock Hudson/James Garner in brand-new movies ...
No fair. She’s a skinny R! Probably a 0.5.
No fair. She’s a skinny R! Probably a 0.5.
Good, at least AI characters don’t have stupid political opinions.
AI Pop Stars as well, that’s already beginning.
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