{"id":22483,"date":"2026-03-26T15:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/creator-of-ai-actor-tilly-norwood-says-she-received-death-threats-over-project\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:37:30","slug":"creator-of-ai-actor-tilly-norwood-says-she-received-death-threats-over-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/creator-of-ai-actor-tilly-norwood-says-she-received-death-threats-over-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Creator of AI actor Tilly Norwood says she received death threats over project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eline van der Velden says she developed her \u2018digital twin\u2019 to provoke discussion but backlash from some has been worse than expected<\/p>\n<p>The creator of the AI actor Tilly Norwood has said she received death threats after a global backlash against the project, and said she developed it to \u201cprovoke thoughts and discussion\u201d about the impact of AI in the entertainment world.<\/p>\n<p>Eline van der Velden caused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/sep\/30\/tilly-norwood-ai-actor-hollywood\">anger and panic in Hollywood<\/a> and beyond last year after she said talent agents had been interested in signing her creation. Prominent actors and acting unions immediately condemned the idea.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/26\/tilly-norwood-ai-actor-creator-backlash-death-threats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1ea1cdb5049b4a9d54b00dc219a857ce538df6a9\/548_0_3682_2946\/master\/3682.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5c5b710a7821ff0f0610db9edc5451fc\" title=\"Creator of AI actor Tilly Norwood says she received death threats over project\" \/>Eline van der Velden says she developed her \u2018digital twin\u2019 to provoke discussion but backlash from some has been worse than expected<br \/>\nThe creator of the AI actor Tilly Norwood has said she received death threats after a global backlash against the project, and said she developed it to \u201cprovoke thoughts and discussion\u201d about the impact of AI in the entertainment world.<br \/>\nEline van der Velden caused anger and panic in Hollywood and beyond last year after she said talent agents had been interested in signing her creation. Prominent actors and acting unions immediately condemned the idea. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eline van der Velden says she developed her \u2018digital twin\u2019 to provoke discussion but backlash from some has been worse than expected The creator of the AI actor Tilly Norwood has said she received death threats after a global backlash against the project, and said she developed it to \u201cprovoke thoughts and discussion\u201d about the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/creator-of-ai-actor-tilly-norwood-says-she-received-death-threats-over-project\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creator of AI actor Tilly Norwood says she received death threats over project<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22484,"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\/22483"}],"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=22483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}