gizmodo.com: Tilly Norwood, the ultimate industry plant, has been dubbed “the world’s first AI actor” by the people who created her. She is still yet to appear in a single film or TV show, but she has a new music video out that is loosely tied to the Oscars and is letting people know that AI is great, actually—a thing that it seems like you wouldn’t have to insist upon if AI were so great.
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There are so many things about this video that are upsetting. The words alone to the song causes a sort of anger in me because it feels like they are saying whatever they wanna say and putting music behind it and calling it art when in reality it's just a public campaign for AI. Another thing that sticks out to me about this video being wrong is the words have emotion behind them and they have meaning talking about being a human but in the video you can tell that she has no emotion and has no actual human emotion I truly believe that lies come from words and the truth is in the emotion and you truly can't portray that emotion without a soul and that's what makes everyone's soul so magical is that it can't be recreated. And I think trying to re-create someone's living soul in a computer-generated actor is taking away from the beauty of being a human. I hope that enough artists and creators will refuse to integrate AI into our art.
Everything this article talks about is horrifying and dystopian. With that in mind, sometimes I really enjoy smaller organizations’ writing pieces because the lack of New-York-Timesian both-sidesism really lets authors go on a tear about the things that bother them. I enjoy reading articles bashing and trashing AI slop, in the same way I love watching videos of fascists being embarrassed- it's cathartic. I like how the article paints the anti-AI perspective as the dominant view it is, pointing out the failures of AI Tilly and her lack of impact on just about anything at all. It’s reading pieces like this that give me some hope for the future- people speaking out about how ridiculous and bad AI art really is. With that being said, multiple aspects of the Tilly project that this article talks about are gross and downright terrifying. From the song lyrics talking about AI replacement of humans, some members of Hollywood supporting the use of AI actors instead of hiring real background actors, and the insistence that “18 humans worked” on Tilly. All of these all too real ideas, beliefs, and actions point towards the Orwellian dystopia of machine-made pop songs and entertainment media, but as long as the dominant view remains consistent with that of the author of this article, we’ll be in the clear.
^Henry Kane
This is just so weird. I watched her video, and I can confirm that it is extremely bad. The entire thing just feels like a justification of the use of AI. They even put a disclaimer stating that 18 humans worked on the video. I am not an AI hater, but I think that it should be used in a realistic way. You can’t just apply AI to any problem or industry and expect it to succeed. The entertainment industry is definitely one that AI should not be leading in. I absolutely understand that AI can be useful in speeding up certain workflows, however it can not create in the way that we need (or want) it to. Art is so much about the lived human experience, something which AI can never understand. I saw an article about Tilly Norwood’s search for representation last semester. That article made it sound like she was on the rise, so I find it really interesting to hear that she has not had much traction.
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