Developed for use in various productions, ranging from TikTok to the big screen, the said "actress" already has several talent agencies eager to represent her.

Tilly Norwood hasn't made many friends in Hollywood. Already. Since her debut over the weekend at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland , a host of film personalities have been speaking out against the arrival of this "actress" generated entirely by artificial intelligence .

" I sincerely hope that all the actors represented by this agent will drop him. It's disgusting. You have to know how to read the mood ," pointed out Scream and Abigail actress Melissa Barrera in an Instagram story, reacting to the news that a talent agency was already likely to represent the actress 2.0.

" And what about the hundreds of very real young women whose faces were stitched together to create her? Couldn't you have just hired one? " asks Mara Wilson, who appeared in 1996's Matilda . " She's not an actress, but nice try ," whispers Nicholas Chavez, the star of the Netflix series about the Menendez brothers.

The introduction of the fake actress with long brown hair from Xicoia studios was made this Saturday by her instigator, the Dutch actress Eline Van Der Velden, who intends to make Tilly Norwood " the next Scarlett Johansson ", as she declared this summer during the release of a video clip featuring her muse for the first time.

“ When we first launched Tilly, people were like, ‘What the hell is it?’ And now we’re about to reveal the name of the agency that will represent her in the coming months,” her boss said during a roundtable organized by Deadline in Zurich, before returning to defend her project tooth and nail on Monday in the face of an avalanche of criticism.

“ I don’t see AI as a replacement for humans, but as a new tool, a new paintbrush ,” she wrote on Instagram. “ Just as animation, puppetry, or computer-generated images have opened up new possibilities without supplanting acting, AI offers another way of imagining and building stories. ”

" Kiss my ass "

Its goal? To offer 100% AI talents for use in all areas of entertainment, from TikTok to cinema, YouTube, and video games. Like its little protégé, they must come with a developed personality, a voice, and an evolving narrative arc, allowing them, for example, to perform monologues or improvise.

" Working with her was a nightmare. She couldn't even meet her targets and was always late ," joked The White Lotus actor Lukas Gage, again in a comment on Melissa Barrera's post. " Fuck you ," for his part, Ralph Ineson, Galactus from the last Fantastic Four , said of X.

A somewhat understandable reaction, less than two years after an unprecedented strike in Hollywood, during which the regulation of artificial intelligence became a major point of contention. And for good reason: actors feared seeing this technology used to clone their voices or images without their consent. That was without counting on their new competitor.