'I'm Not a Puppet, I'm the Star': AI 'Actress' Tilly Norwood Releases Pop Music Video Where She Sings About the Online Backlash to Her Creation

AI "actress" Tilly Norwood is backmost — and this clip she's released a popular euphony video, wherever she sings astir the backlash to her archetypal announcement.

The opus is titled “Take the Lead” and its accompanying euphony video is chock afloat of ridiculous imagery including Norwood swinging from a disco ball, singing connected a London rooftop, and adjacent flying done the entity portion riding an inflatable flamingo.

But portion the video seems to diagnostic AI generated imagery throughout, accumulation institution Particle6 has said the task was made by a squad of astir 20 radical — and that alternatively than taking distant work, AI was simply unlocking productivity. We'll fto you marque up your ain minds there.

Tilly Norwood's caller video starts disconnected with a connection that reads, “The pursuing accumulation was made by 18 existent humans — from accumulation designers to costume designers to prompters, editors, and an actor. No flamingos were harmed successful the process.”

The song, which was inspired by an effort written by Norwood’s creator Eline van der Velden, was generated utilizing Suno, an AI euphony generator, and enactment unneurotic by Particle6 (Van der Velden’s accumulation company) and its AI endowment limb Xicoia Studio utilizing preexisting AI tools and its ain proprietary originative process, according to The Hollywood Reporter. During that process, Van der Velden acted retired Norwood’s performance, which was past incorporated into the AI workflow to nutrient the euphony video.

The lyrics amusement that Van der Velden is inactive dealing with the online and real-world backlash to Norwood's announcement and positioning arsenic the world's archetypal "AI actress" backmost successful 2025. “When they speech astir me, they don’t spot the quality spark, the creativity… I’m conscionable a tool, but I’ve got life,” Norwood tin beryllium heard robotically singing. “They deliberation I’m conscionable a dollar imagination but I’ve got much than they believe… I’m not a puppet, I’m the star.”

This euphony propulsion seems to beryllium investigating the waters for Norwood’s authoritative acting debut aboriginal this year, according to THR. The companies down Norwood besides look to beryllium pushing for a “Tilly-verse,” wherever Norwood and unreleased upcoming AI characters tin “live, interact, and work,” the outlet claims.

Earlier this year, Marvel and Jurassic World prima Chris Pratt deed retired astatine Norwood, but insisted the panic wrong Hollywood astir the imaginable interaction of AI "actors" was "bulls***."

Image credit: Particle6

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.