"The Tilly phenomenon sparked a hullabaloo in Hollywood after tech start-up Particle6 began hyping this so-called AI actor as the world's next breakthrough superstar. This digital creation looks like a relatively photo-real twenty-something white brunette, the type you might cast as sweet kindergarten teacher or non-mean sorority sister in a movie or TV show. But there is someone else, someone from a quarter-century ago, that she calls to mind."
"Aki was the lead character in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, a sci-fi action film from start-up studio Square Enix, a spin-off of the software company that had made a fortune from the Final Fantasy video games in the 90s. Square Enix had spent around $130 million (the inflation equivalent of $240 million today) to create her and produce the alien invasion story."
Tilly Norwood is an AI-generated digital actor hyped by startup Particle6 as a breakthrough superstar. The creation presents as a photo-real twenty-something white brunette, suitable for benign supporting roles. The phenomenon parallels Aki Ross, the virtual lead of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001). Square Enix invested roughly $130 million (about $240 million today) to create the character and produce the alien-invasion film. The movie became one of the most expensive video-game movies and a major box-office bomb. Headlines at the time proclaimed a 'Dawn of Digital' and warned that lifelike computerized avatars could eventually compete with flesh-and-blood film actors as the technology advances rapidly.
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