Tilly Norwood already has a Wikipedia page, and not even the editors are sure what to call it

"It's not just Hollywood that's been grappling with how to deal with AI-generated characters. Wikipedia editors are figuring all this out as they go along, too. Following reports this week that an AI "actress" named Tilly Norwood is attracting interest from talent agents and rattling real-life performers who make their living in movies and on TV, Wikipedia editors moved quickly to create a page for the character-and almost immediately began arguing over how to describe it. Is it a synthetic actress? Is it even a she? Can Tilly Norwood, despite having 45,000 followers on Instagram, be accurately described as doing anything?"

""I'm not comfortable with asserting that Tilly Norwood exists, actually," one editor wrote on Tuesday, the day the page was created. "I'm also not comfortable with the article using gendered pronouns for the Tilly construct." Do AI actresses dream of electric Oscars? The discussions this week among Wikipedia editors-which are visible via the website's "talk" pages -offer a fascinating window into the semantic debates that our society is facing more broadly at a time when we're sharing more and more of our screen time with AI-generated objects designed to look and act like us."

"An early revision of Tilly Norwood's page described the character as an "artificial intelligence-generated actress" who "starred" in an AI-generated sketch comedy show. The current version of the page has toned down the anthropomorphic language, although the gendered pronouns remain intact: "Tilly Norwood is an artificial intelligence-generated character marketed as an actress.""

Wikipedia editors rapidly created and debated a page for Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated character attracting industry attention and social media followers. Editors questioned whether to use terms like "actress," whether to apply gendered pronouns, and whether the construct can be said to "exist" or "do" anything. Early wording used anthropomorphic language such as "starred," while later wording reduced anthropomorphism but retained gendered pronouns. Conversations on public talk pages exposed uncertainty over notability versus semantics, reflecting broader societal challenges about how to label and describe AI-generated people-like entities.

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