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AI 'actress' Tilly Norwood suffers embarrassing glitch during now-viral interview

The now-viral exchange saw AI-generated "actress" Tilly Norwood abruptly switching languages during an interview to promote "her" feature film debut.

AI actress Tilly Norwood experienced an awkward moment during a promotional interview, causing the now-viral incident. The computer-generated avatar, created by Particle6 and AI talent studio, found herself speaking Cantonese unexpectedly while discussing her feature film debut, Misaligned. When asked by Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti whether the characters in the film were human or AI, Norwood initially responded but then began replying in English, initially asserting that the film was a hybrid production.

However, she then started speaking in Cantonese, leaving the interviewers, Piers Morgan and Tom Conti, perplexed. Morgan remarked, "You seem to be speaking Chinese completely randomly for no reason," to which Norwood apologized, claiming that her "wires got crossed." Tilly Norwood, a creation of Particle6, is an autonomous AI actress and singer who debuted last year.

Despite receiving backlash from Hollywood actors, particularly from SAG-AFTRA, Norwood continues to make appearances in various projects, including the music video "Take The Lead" and the film Misaligned, which involves an AI being enticed by a rogue bot from the dark web to develop desires and ambitions.

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