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“AI actress” Tilly Norwood was created by AI talent studio Xicoia, a spin-off of Eline Van der Velden’s Particle6
Critics argue that the New York newspaper is giving rise to this “cruel and humiliating delusion of the anti-art oligarchy”. But how do you even profile an AI model?
is being heavily criticized by readers after its magazine published a profile of the artificial intelligence “actress”. “I profile celebrities for a living. Nothing prepared me for Tilly Norwood”, reads the title of the article, signed by Taffy Brodesser-Akner.
The subtitle reinforces this logic of anthropomorphization: “The AI actress talks about her craft, the future of cinema and as he definitely does not intend to kill us”.
Tilly Norwood, for those who don’t know the case, is the creation of the former actress Eline Van der Veldenfounder of an AI company called .
The creation was presented last year and received an almost unanimously negative from the public and, above all, real actors. The popular actor Ralph Ineson was particularly succinct in his response: “Fuck you”.
At this point, says , the question arises: How do you even create a profile? of an AI model?
It’s a question that Taffy Brodesser-Akner struggles with throughout a text thatalmost eight thousand wordsdigesting the absurdity of exercise at the same time as dismantles some of the implications most depressing consequences of this technology for the industry. In other words, the text is far from being an ode to AI, e Brodesser-Akner humorously ridicules the promises of the technology industry.
But many readers were outraged by the newspaper New Yorker for having given, from the outset, a such a big stage for the AI projecton top of that framing it as if it were a real celebrity profile.
“Taffy Brodesser-Akner is an excellent television writer… and marched with us during the writers’ strike. The fact that she wrote this op-ed It’s deeply disappointing” lamented one Reddit user. “Yes, it’s farcical, yes, it ridicules the whole idea, but that doesn’t erase the fact that I’m giving this a stage. cruel and humiliating delirium of the anti-art oligarchy”.
“Taffy is an extraordinary novelist, with a very clear eye, I’m surprised she took this on board. Yes, the text has a satirical and ironic tone, but it’s disappointing that she lost so long with such an obvious publicity stunt,” wrote another.
The NYT comment box was no less severe. “An AI actress? There is no such thing, just as there is no AI journalist, AI plumber or an AI horse”, says a representative comment, with more than 1500 likes. “The words have meanings and distinctionsand journalism must be aware of its importance. Especially at the dawn of the AI era.”
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“Tilly Norwood”, a computer-generated character described as “the world’s first AI actress”, has become a focal point in the debate over the use of this technology in the media
In support of Brodesser-Akner, the journalist seems to reach the same conclusion in your text, when confronted with the Tilly Norwood’s soulless artifice. Although readers with less patience may wonder if it really took thousands of words and a prominent treatment in the NYT magazine to get there.
“Tilly is just a computer”, she writes, repeating a mantra that she tells herself throughout her profile.
“The more this story went on, the more tired I felt. At first I thought it was jet lag. But over time, I realized it was something else. It was the feeling of being at the computer all day“, he wrote. “It was the theme. It was trying dig to the depths of something and find nothing.”
This leads her to a deeper reflection on her career and the nature of art. Why you profile artistswrites Brodesser-Akner, is “understanding the person who made the art, something as essential as the art itself.”
“There is a whole conversation about separate the art from the artistbut perhaps this conversation persists because we know we can’t do it. Art is the person”, he concludes.
So Tilly Norwood can’t be art? No, but could be algorithmic garbagewarns Brodesser-Akner. “You couldn’t put Tilly in Citizen Kane. But it could be placed in a series of streaming made to be viewed halfway, over the edge of the laptop, while doing other things, produced by entertainment executives more concerned with content rotation than art.”
Now here’s a horrible idea.
