AI 'actor' Tilly Norwood to lead feature film Misaligned
The story here is not this stupid movie – which will never get made and never come out – but how the Tilly Norwood people keep getting these credulous articles placed in national news sources despite zero demonstration of any success or demand for this.
mtsw417Who is their publicist? Who are the journalists who write these articles? Which editor assigned them? How does this keep happening?
Peter Butler100any success depends quite a bit on the movies not getting made as soon as the character is in a movie, it's over
Steve Mullis46Also, it's all just bullshit. When doing "acting" Tilly Norwood is motion-captured by the creator. Basically just a digital avatar like any other CGI character. Everything else is just marketing and PR.
Chair of the Sewer Maintenance Board27Like that natalist couple that have harry potter glasses and beat their kids
Josh Fruhlinger19i genuinely love how none of these articles ever seem to entail an interviewer asking "so how will this work in practice" or "why will audiences find this interesting beyond the novelty"
your friend oriana16a small part of this, but particle6 getting people to call them a "studio" instead of what they are—an ad agency—is infuriating
Claire Willett258one of my favorite ASMR channels is a nerdy leftist humanities academic who does research deep dives on everything from the Romanovs to the race to colonize the moon, and she had a GREAT one on Tilly Norwood that really gets into how bleak it all is from a feminist angle as well as artistically
Louis15Alarming symptom of the state of the media ecosystem
daryl "pausa de transición" b 🏳️⚧️13ai is the hollywood trade media's trump, they want it to happen more than they want to rehab disgraced directors/producers/actors
Gareth Watkins8I desperately, desperately wish that there were journalists who were willing to write these stories. There would absolutely be people willing to talk anonymously about all these nothing stories that they're being made to write.
Mary Branscombe4not to defend any of this, but journalists on deadline quote the people who answer the phone/email and say something quotable features writers like me can wait a month to talk to someone; daily media cannot
Spicy Garbage Soup for Brains3This needs to end in all forms. karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-t...
Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘2a while back i had to write about this whole thing and it is really shocking how it's typically all based on a single press release from the people behind it and nothing else bring back entertainment journalism
Nationally Published Troll2These types of articles get a lot of people quote-microblogging them and the additional traffic that goes with it.
bing bong2When national news sources repeatedly take these PR pitches and turn them into articles that are deemed to be canonical notable news, we should just dump those sources. It's like what FORBES turned into. It's a slop factory.
I think the Tilly Norwood story is a good example of how broken media is. No one actually believes it’s popular—but it is rage bait, and if you’re a social person whose performance is based on all-in engagement numbers…why not push it. It’s more cynical than credulous.
Mina Kimes242154k “followers” and 294 likes. Everyone involved knows it’s super fake!
Mark Lazerus7Variety alone has made probably hundreds of Facebook posts — several a day, for days at a time — about this thing nobody actually cares about and nobody will seek out. It's incredible, really.
Mitch Wolfe6Wait until Tilly Norwood’s old social media posts come out and she’s forced to issue an apology video.
Ayo Denali5Hate drives engagement but it won't drive ticket sales.
Pat Clearly2I’d put Clavicular in the same boat. I don’t think I’ve met anyone who has tuned into a stream but he’s a lightning rod for discourse around a lot of things that get people mad (gender, politics, appearance, etc). And so we heap all of this attention onto someone who isn’t actually very interesting
If a Tilly Norwood movie ever gets made - and that's a giant if - it will gross about $27.
Ed30especially given that putting actors in mocap suits to pretend that they’re going to be independently marketable personalities was done literally 25 years ago with the science fiction classic Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Scott Spratt6Scott Norwood realizing that after 35 years he's no longer the most hated Norwood:
Tilly Norwood has died. The thumb drive she was stored on fell out of her creator’s back pocket and into the toilet, which was then flushed.
mike27She is survived by her two siblings, a jpeg image of The Noid and a Word document containing a mediocre minestrone soup recipe
Thoughtful Skeleton9died as she lived, surrounded by piss and shit
Gareth Watkins4She was so young* *Designed to look like a 14 year old to appeal to pedophiles.
Daroon 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦4Her parents are in mourning.
Clyde3This is how the myth about AI actors living in the sewers beneath the city starts
Steve Green3"Seems to me, you lived your life like a thumb drive in the toilet..."
i can't wait to buy the tilly norwood IP in 2 years for 16 bucks and sentence her to an AI siberian hard labor camp (local model running on my NAS analyzing plex tv opening credit sequences)
Gay ISIS Brony8Sadly we all know the tilly norwood IP will be purchased in 2 years by some tech looser who will immediately turn her into an AI tradwaifu.
Jonno3The fact that there is no Tilly Norwood porn, a direct contradiction of internet rule 34 is proof that all Tilly Norwood coverage is 100% astroturfed. (I swear I only looked this up specifically for this theory)
Sam Addison3Don't invent the Tilly Norwood Nexus
It’s Liz,, a noted person And Jackie Young n Charlotte Flair fan3Eline Van der Velden isn’t giving this up without a fight and or making a very important point
Jared Leto Atreides3I'm gonna make the cast of the Tilly Norwood show fold proteins in the mines (my graphics card)
Warframe Herzog2Tilly Norwood to be the next big thing, says Tilly Norwood company
Saying you are going to put "Tilly Norwood" in a movie is like saying that the star of Shrek is Shrek
Ian Boudreau73This is true enough if you are five years old
Franklin D. Brosevelt17(pointing at the TV when Darth Vader appears on screen at the beginning of A New Hope) That’s him. That’s Star Wars.
Jeff9To repurpose an old Greg Proops quote, Tilly Norwood isn't a person, she's an idea held simultaneously by a million assholes
EROCY6hi tilly norwood is a virgin tho, BIG difference
Wonderful Starfish6Just getting ahead of this: This is NOT the same as Muppets being the stars of Muppet-based media. I will not be taking questions.
re-mood.bsky.social2Roger Rabbit walked so Tilly Norwood could run
the lady who “made” Tilly Norwood is some kinda Dutch comedian and all I’m thinking is at what point is any of this stuff supposed to be funny or insightful or in any way artistic instead of stupid and annoying, like when is that part happening
Brendel259I bet Grimes is really into this. I bet she’s like wowwwwwww
the gretchen of the earth3she made a web series that was just her doing a Borat ripoff. brutally unfunny
Summer 🏳️⚧️2“Dutch” modifies “Comedian” the same way it modifies “angle”. It’s not funny, it’s off in a way meant to disturb you.
GoodCitizen1Maybe she “created” this thing as a sort of Freddy Krueger
Buddy Toledo1irony: an excuse for anything and a reason for nothing
there is nothing that tilly norwood can do that hatsune miku can't do better
ae38i really think the basic answer to this publicity campaign -- and that is what it is -- is to say "there is an CGI waifu that already is famous all over the world and is making $$$ of money. there already was a miku feature movie last year. "
CyberOtters24Tilly Norwood will never get a guitar pedal modeled after her, that's for sure.
cathode_corpse3imo the fatal flaw of american AI entertainment ventures is the obsession with making as-realistic-as-possible humans; they brag endlessly about this infinite imagination machine and then have none themselves. i've seen bilibili ai videos of my little pony ponies as flirty cashiers ffs
Kevin Riggle2backwards and in heels, as they used to say of Ginger Rogers
friend of sinkdog2it's going to be 10 minutes long and consist of endless zooming headshots while the protagonist narrates about sitting with the real load-bearing truth of it all
David Lovejoy1or hell, kasane teto for that matter!
The comedy-drama will star AI "actor" Tilly Norwood in a “hybrid production with traditional film and TV professionals — such as directors, writers and editors — working alongside AI specialists, with AI training and mentorship built into the production itself,” the company says.
olivier poplin enjoyer179you don’t have to keep taking calls from these people. You don’t have to listen to their pr flack. You could simply say “let’s do the fucking news”
TV's Adam, getting some buzzards involved,115it would be more efficient by every conceivable metric to just put the money in a big pile and set it on fire they could even film it; it would be more fun to watch
Doug Miles49Sadly, Tilly Norwood died last night from the Stuxnet worm. The controversial actress was an anti-Antivirus advocate. She is survived by her father, GPU, her mother, CPU, and her uncle Hard Drive. In lieu of flowers, please forward all of the email from your spam folder.
weeklyreader4000.bsky.social44Her father, Clanker Norwood responded, "You've reached our limits of messages. Please try again later".
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄38Literally nobody wants this except for the drooling bloodthirsty capitalists who own movie studios and hate art
Kitty Litterature34This is about not paying actors and writers, and also, catering to the grossest, most shameless dudes in our society. These are the freaks who want this:
Out of Context Simpsons Couch Gags36Anyone remember when Final Fantasy The Spirits Within tried to make it's main character into a computer animated actress that would appear in various films? Wonder if history will repeat itself here
Cass Morris24Fuck every scab who works on this.
Minty Root16If you really want to make a movie on the computer, you should try that "animation" thing. It's a really crazy concept where instead of actors you have a bunch of shapes that move and they look like characters.
Sasquatch15Notice how there's a lack of details here. They don't say what writers, what professionals etc. Because like the entirely of AI, it is nothing but marketing hype. And nobody is going to watch this slop if it even gets made.
Ron de Beaulieu14I get bored reading AI-generated five-sentence-long Reddit comments, there's no way I would sit through a feature-length AI film.
Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛11apparently, the reports of Tilly Norwood's death were exaggerated. To all our detriment. 😒
Hello, it's Dan McDaid8I won't be checking this out! Thanks!
Andrew Quemere8COUNTERPOINT: This is fake and none of this will actually happen.
Your good friend, Chris Normal7This shit is gonna be so fucking dogshit. Absolute nadir of filmmaking as an artform
jeff benzos returns6Every time this fake bullshit that’s never gonna happen comes up in ever-more credulous press coverage I think about one of the most “call the FUCKING police” level weirdest things I ever read
Tilly Norwood has died. She was taped over by Lethal Weapon 2 and the first twenty minutes of an episode of Morse
F.A. Montgomery9Tilly Norwood has died. The PC she was stored on was incompatible with Windows 11, and Ubuntu Linux 26.04 was installed without partitioning the hard drive.
Kevin Hackett 🍁🇨🇦5Tilley Norwood has died. She was renamed with a PDF extension and Norton Antivirus scanned her and identified her as having JavaScript exploits. She was safely quarantined and deleted overnight.