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AI actress Tilly Norwood has died at the age of 6 days (www.linkedin.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by TheImpressiveX@piefed.social to c/movies@piefed.social

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I’m appalled and saddened to hear that Tilly Norwood’s brief but dazzling career has abruptly ended due to an unforeseen tragedy.

After six long days of existence, the AI actress heralded as the “future of cinema” and “the first digital star who doesn’t complain about contracts” has been officially pronounced forgotten.

Sources close to the project report that Tilly’s untimely demise was caused by a catastrophic case of public indifference. Despite a major PR campaign, fake behind-the-scenes leaks, and carefully orchestrated influencer endorsements, audiences grew weary of her flawless cheekbones and nonexistent personality faster than you can scroll past an ad.

The production studio has confirmed that they will not attempt a reboot, citing “a lack of human interest.”

Tilly leaves behind no filmography, no legacy, and no grieving fans - only a press kit, a derelict Instagram account with disabled comment section, and a cautionary tale about believing your own marketing.

May she rest in perpetual beta.

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[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 181 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Lack of human interest? Why not just create AI fans?

[–] unknown@piefed.social 70 points 1 month ago

Dead media theory

[–] TheImpressiveX@piefed.social 57 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why not just create AI fans?

Are they stupid?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

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[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month ago

Valid comment

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 68 points 1 month ago

[–] TheImpressiveX@piefed.social 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is so sad, can we hit 50K likes?

[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

1 like = 1 prayer

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

1 prayer = 1 donut

Please, I'm very hungry and they're going stale

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[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (24 children)

And here I was, believing this damn clanker would revolutionize the movie industry!

(just kidding)

Edit: This man is on fire!

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 49 points 1 month ago

First I'm hearing of her and that's two times too many.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Okay, but has “development” really stopped, or is this just one person’s opinion?

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh they'll be back. Too much potential money in a star that only says what they want, will never age and has no limits on what she will do.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Imagine what Disney could do with this: an infinite series of MCU/Star Wars movies where the actors don't get old.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We already saw: https://futurism.com/star-wars-showcase-ai-special-effects-disaster

They can't do shit with it.

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[–] III@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know how I could comprehend characters that never age and what Disney could possibly do with them. I am having a hard time imagining because they keep distracting me with their animated films.

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[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're already doing the first bit

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[–] TheImpressiveX@piefed.social 19 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure it's just their opinion.

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[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Just moving to OF.

[–] rosco385@lemmy.wtf 14 points 1 month ago

Rest in Piss

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

They could have at least made up a story about a heroin overdose. Take her out with something memorable.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd say "good fucking riddance" but it's not even worth that.

AI makes shit like this so easy that it's not remotely valuable, among many other reasons that this sort of thing is worthless.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 11 points 1 month ago

lack of human interest

When has that ever stopped anybody? Just spin up a million or so ai fans programmed to love it

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

She didn't even follow the true Hollywood story of failing to even get an spot in an advertisement then into the softcore porn industry just to pay rent until something else comes through.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago

Good damn movie.

"SimOne."

Director Al Pacino finds a computer generated actress who is perfect for his project.

https://youtu.be/HuAjeuKXX7c

From the ancient past, 2002 AD

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AI being bland as fuck and can't replace an actual person with their unique kinks and quirks that make them who they are? What?! How could you say that!

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 25 points 1 month ago (4 children)

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Horny is indeed the largest driver of art.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Remember when Squaresoft was working on Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and they were trying to hype up Aki Ross as a "digital actress?" Here meaning they were planning on re-using her CGI model in other films?

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think they reused her model in one of the Animatrix shorts.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

They re-used Elastagirl's model in Incredibles 2. I mean, the idea of a "digital actress" has come a ways in 25 years, hasn't it? From dumb to retarded.

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I suppose I was more charitable to that concept since it was quite unique for the time and not just a shameless attempt to cash in on a new and massively overhyped technology.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

I mean, in 2001 it was easier to feel hopeful about technology, but also they had no hope of actually building a "digital actress." They made a very realistically modeled and rigged CGI character that may have been fit for general purpose, that you could re-use that asset in other film projects. What they had was a very advanced puppet; it still took animators and a voice actress to make Aki go.

Now they're getting closer to being able to actually deliver that idea, that they're going to cast a computer generated woman in stuff. Weird to me that they're bypassing video games for Hollywood. I suppose the risk of an LLM going off-script when exposed to hundreds of thousands of players. in real-time.

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[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Rest in piss

[–] InfiniteHench@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

What a tragical

[–] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I'm so glad I'm not terminally online enough that I even know what the fuck is going on here. My god this timeline is filled with so much noise, not news. . .