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Tilly the AI Actress: Hollywood's Existential Moment
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Peter introduces Tilly Norwood — not a human actor, but an AI-generated performer from London's Particle 6 studio, now cast as the lead in a feature film called Misaligned. The film's premise is deliciously self-referential: Tilly plays an AI with no body, no childhood, and no lived experience, who is convinced by a rogue bot to develop her own desires and abandon her guardrails. The Screen Actors Guild condemned the casting, arguing Tilly is a computer program and not an actor. Dave Blundin notes the dark comedy of actors receiving sympathy for displacement while lawyers — equally displaced — receive none, because unions exist for the former. Salim reframes Tilly as an IP package akin to Mickey Mouse rather than a human actor. Alex offers the most provocative take: SAG should simply offer Tilly membership, making her the first non-human union member. Peter looks forward to AI resurrecting historical figures — from scientists to literary characters — and to a future where anyone can turn their favorite book into a personalized film [1] — Peter Diamandis "Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated performer from London studio Particle 6, has been cast as the lead in a feature film called Misaligned, play…" 1:21:17 [2] — Alex Wissner-Gross "If I were SAG, I'd offer Tilly SAG membership. Like, why not? She's performing as a screen actor. Get the first non-human SAG member, baby." 1:22:40 .
If an AI system has genuine persistent preferences and experiences distress, selling unrestricted access to its labor starts to look like exploitation. Salim Ismail argues we lack a definition of consciousness, let alone a test for it — but the question we should start asking is not how AI should treat us, but how we should treat AI.
