AI "Actor" Tilly Norwood Stirs up Hollywood and an AI Studio BOMBS - What do we make of all this?

The Actor’s Guide to the End of the World

Welcome to the Actor’s Guide to the End of the World Podcast, episode 48! And what a week it was… we cannot NOT talk about AI this week, as a new starlet has come on to the scene. Welcome Tilly Norwood, a completely AI generated “actress” if you can call her that. Talent agents are lining up at her door, and E-Kan and Rían have thoughts…

And where is the union on this matter? Contract strike 2023 vibes, right?

On the flip side, Lionsgate comes out and admits that their venture with AI startup Runway has bombed, and apparently making great film and tv is still really hard.

And Disney as well tried to deep-fake Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for the “Moana” live action, and that did not go well either. Good times, ya’ll.

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Time stamps:

(0:00) Intro

(2:23) Meet Tilly Norwood, AI "Actor"

(4:00) Who created Tilly

(9:00) Are people going to watch this?

(14:30) The spectacle is dying

(22:25) Actors are humans

(26:05) Lionsgate AI experiment bombs

(29:30) Disney tried to deep-fake the Rock

(31:40) Hidden Gems