There’s something oddly comforting about watching Amy Poehler roast a robot — or something like a robot.

During Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary episode, Poehler slipped one quick line into her opening monologue that summed up an entire industry’s panic attack: “You’ll never be able to write a joke, you stupid robot,” she told Tilly Norwood — or, more accurately, the idea of Tilly Norwood, the AI “actress” that’s been giving Hollywood the collective ick all month.

For anyone just tuning in, Tilly isn’t real. She’s a computer-generated “ingenue” created by Eline Van der Velden’s company, Particle6, and unveiled at the Zurich Film Festival earlier this month. Van der Velden casually mentioned that Tilly would soon be represented by an agency, and that was all it took. Within days, th

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