In 2025, there is a big conversation about the morality of artificial intelligence and art. As we know, it is an expression of humanity. A new Upcoming Actress, Tilly Norwood, has sparked outrage amongst Hollywood and the film industry. Why? Because she is a product of Artificial Intelligence.
Artificial intelligence has been a pressing issue over the last five years. Although it has proven useful tool as a whole to a plethora of professions, it is integral to know that Art is based on the human experience that a machine will never know.
In July, a teaser was released for Tilly Norwood, an actress created with artificial intelligence. The group and company credited with creating this AI actress are named Partical6, founded by Dutch entrepreneur Eline Van der Veldan. Norwood is the product of the AI talent studio, Xicotu, which is a part of Partical6.
As AI actresses become more human-like, this leaves a fear in Hollywood for many. SAG-AFTRA’s response to the creation of Norwood reminded that using her can breach the protections against AI they set in place after the 2023 strike.
The main moral issue of utilizing an AI actress is how film and acting have created a space for people to express their art through storytelling. Film and Humans cannot mutually exist without humans; film is not Film anymore.
The process of filmmaking is special; artists work months to years, pouring out all their artistic abilities and vision into one project. We must acknowledge the beauty in the process. Artificial Intelligence is not only threatening actors but also alarms the film industry as a whole.
Andrea Lervolino, an Italian producer, introduced His new AI Label and the production of a film called “The sweet Idleness,” which will be the first film directed by a virtual director, an Artificial Intelligence named FellinAI.
This is not just a problem in the film industry and acting space. The emergence of platforms like Dall-E 2 and Midjourney in the past few years raises the question of how genuine art created by artificial intelligence can be. Before December 2022, human-created images were the only Images.
Following the regulatory changes, AI-generated images can now be sold if properly attributed. It’s essential to note that AI generators rely on human prompts and Drawings from thousands of images, which allows them to produce images that meet particular criteria.
Audrey Rudolph ’27 analyzes Artificial Intelligence’s pending infringement into the space of creativity and Art. “I particularly don’t understand the use of AI in things like art because if we’re taking a program, I don’t know why we don’t do that for things like math or sciences, where there are correct answers that can be got through an algorithm.” She continues, “I just think that progress should be focused elsewhere. And I think AI art misses the part that I think makes art what it is, which is like being human.”
The threat of AI is very prominent; although AI is often seen as harmless, it is capable of replacing many industries, and people are losing their jobs to a database. AI could replace Actors or illegally steal their likeness, the problem of AI is not going away, it’s only growing bigger. We, as an O’Dowd community that supports Originality, can support Art and the movement to keep art as human as it’s always been.
