A major Hollywood actors' union condemned reports that talent agents looking to sign AI "actor" Tilly Norwood for representation.
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG-AFTRA, said in a statement on Tuesday that Tilly Norwood "is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers."
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"It has no life experience to draw from, no emotion and, from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience," the union said.
The union blasted the the AI creation for "using stolen performances to put actors out of work, jeopardizing perf