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AI actress Tilly Norwood has died at the age of 6 days (www.linkedin.com)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 178 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] unknown@piefed.social 69 points 4 days ago

Dead media theory

[–] TheImpressiveX@piefed.social 56 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why not just create AI fans?

Are they stupid?

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[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 4 days ago

Valid comment

[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is a movie from 20 years ago that was much more optimistic about the future of AI-generated actors

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/

[–] incompetent@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Did you ever see The Congress?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 48 points 4 days ago

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

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 66 points 4 days ago

[–] TheImpressiveX@piefed.social 57 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

1 like = 1 prayer

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

1 prayer = 1 donut

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

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[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago

Just moving to OF.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Hey, like for many other unsuccessful movie stars, how about a future in the porn business? ;-)

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 40 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Someone's opinion. If you google the topic, nothing about this has been mentioned

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 42 points 4 days 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 4 days ago (6 children)

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

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[–] TheImpressiveX@piefed.social 19 points 4 days ago

Pretty sure it's just their opinion.

[–] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days 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. . .

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

Don't celebrate this death! Republicans will have to attack you for offending 90% of their culture warriors.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Remember when Square Enix thought their Ming Na avatar was going to be a real movie star and even had Maxim "photoshoot"?

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days 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 3 days ago (4 children)

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Horny is indeed the largest driver of art.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago

I think horny is the driving force behind all of civilization.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago

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

[–] rosco385@lemmy.wtf 14 points 4 days ago

Rest in Piss

[–] Juice@midwest.social 11 points 4 days ago

lack of human interest

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

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago (4 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?

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days 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 3 days 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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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 11 points 4 days 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

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days 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.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

Rest in piss

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