{"id":222712,"date":"2025-09-30T20:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/creator-behind-ai-actress-responds-to-backlash-she-is-not-a-replacement-for-a-human-being"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:03:32","slug":"creator-behind-ai-actress-responds-to-backlash-she-is-not-a-replacement-for-a-human-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/creator-behind-ai-actress-responds-to-backlash-she-is-not-a-replacement-for-a-human-being","title":{"rendered":"Creator behind AI actress responds to backlash: \u2018She is not a replacement for a human being\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/creator-behind-ai-actress-responds-to-backlash-she-is-not-a-replacement-for-a-human-being.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial people may put a lot of actors out of work.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Tilly Norwood looks and sounds real, but she\u2019s not real at all.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Eline Van Der Velden, the CEO of the AI production company Particle6, the \u201cactress\u201d has garnered interest from studios with talent agents eyeing to sign her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/global\/ai-actress-tilly-norwood-backlash-hollywood-1236533740\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Variety<\/a> reports, Van Der Velden explained at the <a href=\"https:\/\/zff.com\/en\/industry\/zurich-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zurich Summit<\/a> that studio interest has spiked since Tilly\u2019s launch with agency representation expected soon. If signed, she would be one of the first AI-generated actresses to have talent representation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial people may put a lot of actors out of work. Tilly Norwood looks and sounds real, but she\u2019s not real at all. Created by Eline Van Der Velden, the CEO of the AI production company Particle6, the \u201cactress\u201d has garnered interest from studios with talent agents eyeing to sign her. Variety reports, Van Der [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}