"What is scary about Tilly Norwood, the new AI-generated screen star created by the digital studio Xicoia, and launched in a pre-emptively ironic comedy video mocking the soulless unoriginality of AI, is how very convincing it looks in all its girl-next-door cheerfulness. I was expecting something like those Stepford-Wife AI language tutors that crop up on your Instagram feed, promising to practise German or Spanish or French with you."
"But it has to be said: Tilly is like an iPhone 17 making those faces look like a Nokia brick. It is not on screen for long and perhaps vanishes just before you sense something's off, but as things stand, Tilly doesn't look obviously less real than many of the performers who appear on screen today. It is not merely that the technology which creates these"
Tilly Norwood is an AI-generated screen star produced by Xicoia and presented in an ironic comedy video that mocks AI unoriginality. The avatar appears strikingly convincing with girl-next-door cheerfulness, outpacing expectations of shallow language-tutor bots. The brief appearance may avoid overt uncanniness, yet currently reads as believable as many on-screen performers. The creators have effectively replicated countless stylistic and performance touches from human actors. Contemporary performance and writing aesthetics are becoming programmatic and bland, aligning with machine outputs. AI actors are increasingly feasible and pose a tangible challenge to authenticity in media.
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