SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The creator of an artificial intelligence character billed as an AI "actress" has been forced to respond following a backlash to rumors that talent agents were interested in character. The character, "Tilly Norwood," is "not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work," the AI's creator, Eline Van der Velden, said in an Instagram post over the weekend.

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The post, addressed to "those who have expressed anger over the creation," of the character, went on to say that, "Like many forms of art before her, she sparks conversation, and that in itself shows the power of creativity."

Van der Velden, the Dutch founder of AI production company, Particle 6, made the post in seeming respon

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