{"id":180748,"date":"2025-10-05T20:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180748\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T20:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:31:16","slug":"you-can-always-tell-them-from-real-actors-our-faces-and-bodies-move-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/180748\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Can Always Tell Them From\u2019 Real Actors. \u2018Our Faces and Bodies Move Differently\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whoopi Goldberg is challenging the creation of AI actress Tilly Norwood<\/a> and doubting Tilly can steal jobs away from real actors since human performers \u201cmove differently, our faces move differently, our bodies move differently\u201d (via Entertainment Weekly<\/a>). Tilly has dominated recent headlines in Hollywood ever since actor, comedian and producer Eline Van der Velden\u00a0announced at the Zurich Summit that her AI creation<\/a> is courting interest from multiple talent agents who are allegedly interested in signing her.<\/p>\n

Hollywood stars such as Melissa Barrera, Kiersey Clemons, Mara Wilson and more were quick to condemn<\/a> the AI creation on social media, while Van der Velden defended Tilly (who was created by the AI production studio Particle6) by saying: \u201cShe is not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work \u2013 a piece of art.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAfter many human actors called for a boycott against agencies who sign AI actors, the studio claims Tilly is not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work, and AI characters should be judged as part of their own genre, rather than compared directly with human actors,\u201d Goldberg said with a sarcastic bent during \u201cThe View.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem with this, in my humble opinion, is that you are suddenly up against something that\u2019s been generated with 5,000 other actors,\u201d Goldberg explained. \u201cIt\u2019s got Bette Davis\u2019 attitude, it\u2019s got Humphrey Bogart\u2019s lips\u2026 And so it\u2019s a little bit of an unfair advantage. But you know what? Bring it on. You can always tell them from us. We move differently, our faces move differently, our bodies move differently.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goldberg maintained that the technology to create a fully believable AI performer \u201cisn\u2019t seamless yet,\u201d though she said \u201cmaybe in two or three years,\u201d it will be. The comedian concluded: \u201cHopefully, we\u2019ll be able to hold on because what this means is AI in the workplace \u2014 not just my workplace, but in every industry\u2026 Some industries are using AI now. People talk about people are so lonely they don\u2019t have a connection, if you stick with this, with AI, you won\u2019t have any connection to anything but your phone.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her defense of Tilly\u2019s creation<\/a>, Van der Velden added: \u201cI see AI not as a replacement for people, but as a new tool, a new paintbrush. Just as animation, puppetry, or CGI opened fresh possibilities without taking away from live acting, AI offers another way to imagine and build stories. I\u2019m an actor myself, and nothing \u2013 certainly not an AI character \u2013 can take away the craft or joy of human performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to\u00a0Broadcast International<\/a>\u00a0in July, Van der Velden said she wanted Tilly \u201cto be the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman.\u201d<\/p>\n

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