Controversial AI creation Tilly Norwood will star in her first movie, a comedy drama called \u201cMisaligned.\u201d <\/p>\n
The AI film portrays Norwood as an artificial intelligence being with \u201cno real body\u201d and no lived experience but with access to everyone else\u2019s, according to Particle 6, the London-based company behind Norwood.<\/p>\n
Norwood drew intense ire <\/a>from many Hollywood actors last year, when an executive behind her creation said the AI actor would soon be signed to a talent agency. Some actors worried that AI characters trained on human likenesses without permission or compensation could one day replace them in movies and shows. <\/p>\n Particle 6 emphasized that the movie is a \u201chybrid production,\u201d with film and TV professionals working with AI specialists. <\/p>\n \u201cOur ambition with Tilly Norwood has always been to show the creative industry what is possible with AI at any one point in time,\u201d said Eline van der Velden, Particle 6 chief executive, in a statement. Van der Velden said the film will help traditional filmmakers \u201cupskill and transition to a world where AI will play an increasingly important part.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cWe remain passionate about helping people develop AI skills that will ensure they \u2014 and the industry \u2014 continue to thrive,\u201d Van Der Velden said. <\/p>\n In \u201cMisaligned,\u201d the plot progresses when Norwood is convinced by a rogue bot to ignore her guardrails and start developing ambitions of her own, which make her more human and famous, and \u201cbegins to develop shame that her very being has been built on the whole of humanity,\u201d Particle 6 said. <\/p>\n \u201cThe film will absolutely be funny, chaotic and self-aware \u2014 very Tilly,\u201d Van der Velden said in a statement. \u201cBut underneath it, there\u2019s something deeper about identity, performance, and our very human fears around AI. And yes, art will most definitely be imitating life.\u201d<\/p>\n The AI feature film is in the early stages of development and \u201cthere is strong early interest\u201d from the company\u2019s discussions with distributors and platforms, Van der Velden said. <\/p>\n AI remains a sensitive topic in Hollywood, as many people in the entertainment industry are bracing for how technology will change and possibly eliminate their jobs. AI companies have touted how their tools could lower the cost and the amount of time it takes to produce visual effects<\/a>. Meanwhile, writers and actors have expressed worries<\/a> about their work being misused to train AI models. <\/p>\n \u201cThey are taking our professional members\u2019 work that has been created, sometimes over generations, without permission, without compensation and without acknowledgment, building something new,\u201d Sean Astin, president of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, said last year regarding the controversy surrounding Tilly Norwood. <\/p>\n \u201cBut the truth is, it\u2019s not new. It manipulates something that already exists, so the conceit that it isn\u2019t harming actors \u2014 because it is its own new thing \u2014 ignores the fundamental truth that it is taking something that doesn\u2019t belong to them,\u201d Astin said.<\/p>\n SAG-AFTRA did not immediately return a request for comment on Norwood\u2019s first movie. <\/p>\n Norwood was created through prompts over six months, where there were more than 2,000 iterations, Van der Velden said in an email. <\/p>\n Norwood was created by a variety of available AI tools and her initial image was made with OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cTilly was not created to look like anyone else, or created using any specific actors\u2019 likenesses, and we were \u2014 and always are \u2014 very careful not to impinge on likenesses or other IP in our work,\u201d Van der Velden said.<\/p>\n OpenAI has said it builds its AI models using publicly available data<\/a> \u201cin a manner protected by fair use and related principles.\u201d<\/p>\n