Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI

Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actress,” is having a rough time on her first press tour. The production company that created her, Particle6 Group, has made her available for seventy-five simultaneous interviews with journalists , and she seems to be making mistakes in all of them. (I was not invited to speak with her, and frankly, I cannot imagine why she didn’t want to meet me.)

In one particularly odd interview with Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti, which was recorded and posted online, Norwood seems to malfunction and abruptly begin speaking Chinese.

When discussing the movie that Norwood is promoting, Conti asks if the other actors are also AI-generated. Norwood responds by saying that human writers, editors, and directors were involved.

“You didn’t really understand the question,” Conti replies. “Are the other actors on the screen with you real actors, or are they computer-generated images? Do you know?”