{"id":2247491,"date":"2026-01-23T19:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2247491"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:19:20","slug":"tilly-norwood-creator-doubles-down-on-ai-actors-and-says-its-a-more-ethical-way-to-perform-urges-human-actors-to-future-proof-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tilly-norwood-creator-doubles-down-on-ai-actors-and-says-its-a-more-ethical-way-to-perform-urges-human-actors-to-future-proof-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilly Norwood Creator Doubles Down on AI \u2018Actors\u2019 and Says It\u2019s a \u2018More Ethical Way to Perform,\u2019 Urges Human Actors to \u2018Future-Proof\u2019 Themselves With AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eline van der Velden<\/a> is the CEO and founder of AI company Particle6<\/a>, which is behind AI \u201cactor\u201d Tilly Norwood. The creation became the center of a Hollywood hailstorm in late 2025 after Van der Velden suggested on a panel in Zurich that she was set to sign with an agency. The comments prompted an immediate backlash from across the industry and beyond as actors, unions and more waded into the AI debate to condemn Tilly Norwood and question what her existence meant for the profession. With concerns over AI in film and TV growing exponentially, Tilly Norwood quickly became the very recognizable, computer-generated face of the issue. Those behind Tilly have leaned into that role \u2014 on Jan. 22 when the Oscar nominations were announced, the official Tilly Norwood Instagram<\/a> posted an image of Tilly at a podium holding an award (not an Oscar), with the caption, \u201cCongratulations to all the Oscar nominees,…<\/div>\n

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Eline van der Velden is the CEO and founder of AI company Particle6, which is behind AI \u201cactor\u201d Tilly Norwood. The creation became the center of a Hollywood hailstorm in late 2025 after Van der Velden suggested on a panel in Zurich that she was set to sign with an agency. The comments prompted an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2247492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2247491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Tilly-Norwood-Creator-Doubles-Down-on-AI-\u2018Actors-and-Says.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247493,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247491\/revisions\/2247493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2247492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}