A new actress is hitting the big screen. Her name is Tilly Norwood, but there's a catch: she's not real.

Tilly Norwood is an AI-generated character and she's causing quite the stir in Hollywood.

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"It's very hard to tell the difference on-screen between someone that is a real living human being and someone that is computer-generated," said David Richard, a public relations professor at Emerson College and CEO of Big Fish PR.

Tilly Norwood is the first creation from a new studio that develops AI actors. And although the film and television industry has been preparing for something like this, Richard said, it's understandable why real actors are pushing back.

"This is a serious threat to actors," Richard said. "You d

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