{"id":20289,"date":"2025-10-01T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/emily-blunt-and-sag-aftra-join-film-industry-condemnation-of-ai-actor-tilly-norwood\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:38:14","slug":"emily-blunt-and-sag-aftra-join-film-industry-condemnation-of-ai-actor-tilly-norwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/emily-blunt-and-sag-aftra-join-film-industry-condemnation-of-ai-actor-tilly-norwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Blunt and Sag-Aftra join film industry condemnation of \u2018AI actor\u2019 Tilly Norwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US actors\u2019 union joins stars in opposition to Norwood, which it says was created \u2018using stolen performances\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The controversy around the \u201cAI actor\u201d Tilly Norwood continues to grow, after the actors\u2019 union Sag-Aftra condemned the development and said Norwood\u2019s creators were \u201cusing stolen performances\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sagaftra.org\/sag-aftra-statement-synthetic-performer\">Sag-Aftra released a statement<\/a> after the AI \u201ctalent studio\u201d Xicoia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/sep\/30\/tilly-norwood-ai-actor-hollywood\">unveiled its creation<\/a> at the Zurich film festival, prompting an immediate backlash from actors including Melissa Barrera, Mara Wilson and Ralph Ineson. Sag-Aftra said it believed creativity was, \u201cand should remain, human-centred. The union is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/sep\/30\/emily-blunt-sag-aftra-film-industry-condemnation-ai-actor-tilly-norwood\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1f4cf02da300f69c0a7b0d59f3c5fe13d4d7fb8a\/155_0_425_340\/master\/425.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3116d456ab645aeeb33137166ea79abd\" title=\"Emily Blunt and Sag-Aftra join film industry condemnation of \u2018AI actor\u2019 Tilly Norwood\" \/>US actors\u2019 union joins stars in opposition to Norwood, which it says was created \u2018using stolen performances\u2019<br \/>\nThe controversy around the \u201cAI actor\u201d Tilly Norwood continues to grow, after the actors\u2019 union Sag-Aftra condemned the development and said Norwood\u2019s creators were \u201cusing stolen performances\u201d.<br \/>\nSag-Aftra released a statement after the AI \u201ctalent studio\u201d Xicoia unveiled its creation at the Zurich film festival, prompting an immediate backlash from actors including Melissa Barrera, Mara Wilson and Ralph Ineson. Sag-Aftra said it believed creativity was, \u201cand should remain, human-centred. The union is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US actors\u2019 union joins stars in opposition to Norwood, which it says was created \u2018using stolen performances\u2019 The controversy around the \u201cAI actor\u201d Tilly Norwood continues to grow, after the actors\u2019 union Sag-Aftra condemned the development and said Norwood\u2019s creators were \u201cusing stolen performances\u201d. Sag-Aftra released a statement after the AI \u201ctalent studio\u201d Xicoia unveiled &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/emily-blunt-and-sag-aftra-join-film-industry-condemnation-of-ai-actor-tilly-norwood\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emily Blunt and Sag-Aftra join film industry condemnation of \u2018AI actor\u2019 Tilly Norwood<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}