AI actress Tilly Norwood switches to Chinese mid-interview on Piers Morgan show, video goes viral
An AI-generated actress named Tilly Norwood went viral after seemingly glitching and switching to speaking Cantonese during an interview on Piers Morgan's show. Her creators later clarified that the language switch was intentional, intended to showcase her linguistic capabilities as an autonomous AI.
Why it matters
This incident highlights the evolving capabilities and public perception of generative AI in entertainment, raising questions about authenticity, control, and the future of human-AI interaction in media.
Tilly Norwood, an actress created using artificial intelligence (AI), is going viral for abruptly switching to speaking Chinese in the middle of an interview.The incident happened during ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored’ when Norwood was answering a question posed by actor Tom Conti about her upcoming feature film Misaligned.Conti asked: “Are the other actors on the screen with you real actors? Or are they computer-generated images?”Norwood affirmed that the actors seen on the screen in the film were “digital twins” just like her, before switching to Cantonese, a variety of Chinese spoken in China's Guangdong province (historically called Canton), Hong Kong, and Macau. Morgan picked up on the language switch and asked her, “You seem to be speaking Chinese completely randomly for no reason.
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