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Posted on 07/06/2026 3:30:47 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood is set to make her big-screen debut, starring in the film "Misaligned" from the studio that created the polarizing digital thespian.
U.K.-based Particle6, which describes itself as an "AI-first and AI-hybrid" developer of movies and TV programming, announced on Monday that it has begun developing the film, in which Norwood, who is not a sentient being, will "take the lead."
Particle6 founder Eline van der Velden, herself a former actor, unveiled Norwood to the public in 2025 after her team at the studio developed some 2,000 iterations of the AI tool and gradually taught her to act.
Particle6 describes the forthcoming film, which is set in what the studio calls "a surreal digital world located somewhere up in the Cloud," as a "coming-of-age story infused with existential AI chaos."
The plotline is self-referential: Norwood plays an AI being with no lived experience but access to other humans' childhoods and backstories.
Van der Velden said the studio's goal is to demonstrate AI's capabilities to the film industry and to the wider public. The studio will produce the movie using traditional film professionals, including directors, writers and editors, as well as AI specialists, according to Particle6.
"The film will absolutely be funny, chaotic and self-aware — very Tilly," she said in a statement. "But underneath it, there's something deeper about identity, performance and our very human fears around AI. And yes, art will most definitely be imitating life."
Van der Velden also said she wants to prove that "AI can support premium narrative filmmaking, but only with substantial amounts of human craft, skill, judgment and time. That's not a limitation of the technology. That's the point."
Norwood sparked industry backlash when she was first introduced, with movie pros protesting that acting parts should be reserved for humans rather than synthetic performers.
In September, the entertainment industry union SAG-AFTRA said in a statement that it doesn't consider Norwood an actor and that "creativity is, and should remain, human-centered."
Guardrails on the film and television industry's use of AI in production were a key sticking point in 2023 negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and major film studios, which led to industry professionals striking for the first time in 15 years.
The union sought guarantees that studios wouldn't rely on AI instead of human creatives, while the final labor agreement limits the use of the technology.
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Millions of young girls will heed the political viewpoints of this figment; little more than a meme that talks.
I won’t mind if it’s used for adult porn, we’ve always had that. But it will be used for child porn, too. We don’t want that and what it will lead to.
Humans got along for decades with dog-eared pulp magazines, then grainy 8mm films, then glossy magazines, and finally porn hit the internet. If the upshot of AI generated actors is that the human toll of the porn industry is wiped clean, that will be a Big Deal and a Good Thing.
Didn’t think of that. My mind never goes there. Too horrific!
We need more Max Headroom in the room! ;)
Max Headroom!
Yesssssssssssssssssss!
Why stop at actors? With mail-in voting and the power of social media we could have AI politicians with a few keystrokes. Look at the current crop of real ones. Could we do worse? Oh, I know what you’re thinking: “Drill, that would give us a crop of good-looking simulacra with no independent thought who only mouth the scripts written for them by their handlers.” Like now.
It will be interesting - and tricky - how the many legal issues surrounding all of this new technology will be handled.
SAG must be on fire!
Oh, c'mon. Not every actress necessarily has to be built like Sydney Sweeney.
On second thought, scratch that....
Looks better than the new Supergirl
Yeah, butt there’s still the ruination of the viewers.
There’s not much you can do about that without changing the 1st amendment.
It really feels like this has the potential to be civilization ending. AI can give all the little girls perfect characters that appeal perfectly to them. And the same for the boys. None of these facimilies will come close to approximating the characteristics of actual people and if will kill the ability of many people to ever be satisfied with a real relationship with a real person.
Has someone started an Orange Catholic Church yet?
That open face and smile can never be anything but insincere . It isn’t real. It doesn’t actually exist.
chin?
I’m not sure that’s correct, at least for many people. I think it will have a short fascination, and then become very boring compared with real human beings.
We’ve always had novels and films that promote ideal romantic situations; but that has never been ‘civilization ending’.
> AI politicians with a few keystrokes. <
How’s about bringing a few of the old ones back? Program an AI George Washington, for example. Make him just like the real guy.
Of course the old programming rule would still apply:
Garbage in, garbage out.
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They got an AI black female singer....
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