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

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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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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

I actually really liked that movie too, wish it was more popular to get more like it