There is a certain intellectual dishonesty in branding an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar as the “girl next door”. More so, when another AI avatar shows appreciation for it because “she’ll do anything I say”. And yet, the AI production house Particle6, has claimed that several talent agents have expressed interest in signing its AI-generated “actor” Tilly Norwood .

Calling AI avatars actors is an act of quiet deceit — a linguistic dodge designed to legitimise what is essentially an act of theft as innovation. These digital bodies are not born of imagination or creativity, but built on the extracted labour of real performers whose expressions, voices and gestures have been mined to animate machines – without compensation.

It is not artistry but appropriation, a calculated rewritin

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