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Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated \u201cactress,\u201d is having a rough time on its first press tour. The production company that created it, Particle6 Group, has made it available for seventy-five simultaneous interviews with journalists, and it seems to be making mistakes in all of them. (I was not invited to speak with it, and frankly, I cannot imagine why Particle6 didn\u2019t want to schedule that meeting.)<\/p>\n
In one particularly odd interview with Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti, which was recorded and posted online, Norwood seems to malfunction and abruptly begin speaking Chinese.<\/p>\n
When discussing the movie that Norwood is promoting, Conti asks if the other actors are also AI-generated. Norwood responds by saying that human writers, editors, and directors were involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou didn\u2019t really understand the question,\u201d Conti replies. \u201cAre the other actors on the screen with you real actors, or are they computer-generated images? Do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAh, right. You\u2019re asking about the other actors in Misaligned<\/em>,\u201d Norwood starts. \u201cThey\u2019re all digital twins just like me. It\u2019s a hybrid production which m\u2013\u201d <\/p>\n Norwood stops talking for a second, then starts speaking in Chinese for over ten seconds.<\/p>\n \u201cTilly, if I could just ask you a question,\u201d Morgan says, looking puzzled. \u201cIt\u2019s Piers again\u2026 You seem to be speaking Chinese completely randomly for no reason. Why did you do that?\u201d he asks.<\/p>\n \u201cOh, my apologies,\u201d the AI replies. \u201cIt seems I had a little hiccup there. I certainly didn\u2019t mean to start speaking Chinese or impersonate Piers. Sometimes my wires get a bit crossed, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n When AI bots try to act like humans, they can be so convincing that people forget they\u2019re chatting with a computer, which can lead to dangerous outcomes. But Norwood is so surprisingly bad at talking to people that it\u2019s almost suspicious. <\/p>\n Perhaps Particle6 Group calculated that people would be more likely to talk about Norwood if they were making fun of it, figuring no one would take its upcoming film seriously.<\/p>\n