Could an AI-generated actress be the next big movie star? Not if Hollywood has a say.

When Tilly Norwood, a character generated with artificial intelligence, was announced to be in talks with talent agencies about becoming “the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman,” Hollywood stars, filmmakers and guild leaders snatched their pitchforks.

“To be clear, ‘Tilly Norwood’ is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation," Hollywood’s labor union, SAG-AFTRA, wrote in a statement .

The statement continued, “It has no life experience to draw from, no emotion and, from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from

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