If you’ve been online recently, you’ve probably heard a whisper or two about the new hot actress in town. Her name is Tilly Norwood and, you guessed it, she’s not real. Of course, she looks like a young teenage girl. The industry’s perfect woman has been designed for weirdos and creeps everywhere. She’s the world’s first AI actress who has officially been in a film. Hers is called “AI Commissioner”, a movie-like sketch, to either bluff or warn how the film industry will be changed forever. In the trailer, the other AI-generated people are constantly making jokes at Tilly’s expense, saying she’s “the perfect actress”. She is an actress who doesn’t need to eat, sleep, take breaks, and worst of all, can’t say no.
We all know how AI is slowly taking over every industry you can think of. From fashion and modeling to game design, and now acting and film. The real tea with the use of creating fake people is exactly what you’d think: they’re mostly all women. Hollywood has felt the need to diminish women to their sexiness to demean and control them forever. Even though it has been getting better throughout the years, we still see examples of the industry prioritizing men and diminishing women’s hard work. Take the 2024 Oscars, where the Barbie movie was constantly mocked and ridiculed by the presenters. The only award it won was for the song “I’m Just Ken,” and even Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken, was appalled at this disrespect towards the piece of art that is the Barbie movie. Although this instance was disrespectful, it wasn’t shocking. The movie itself has nothing sexy or male-gaze-y, so why would it win, right? Especially if that’s all the industry seems to award and crave.
Did you know women in film are four times more likely to be shown undressed on the silver screen than men are? The issue with Hollywood‘s sexualization lies even deeper in the fact that even camera angles change for women, designed to show their bodies off more in comparison to men on screen. Think of Megan Fox in the first Transformers movie, it’s every man’s wet dream…shocker. Even movie posters overly sexualise the women in them; think of movies like She’s Out of My League, Bachelor Party, even Return of the Jedi, and Jaws; all of their posters contain extremely sexualised women, which makes you think, truly, what they would/will do with a fully AI woman when stuff like this already happens to real women. They say it in the short film, “AI Commissioner”, “consent in romantic scenes, we just ignored that,” as well as “She’ll do anything I say. I’m already in love.” It’s a recipe for disaster, and truly sickening that they would drive that point home so hard. I look forward to seeing this disaster unfold as Pandora’s box has been opened, and there is nothing we can do to stop it; however, the backlash and consequences have already started.
Words by Mia Scialdone
Graphic by Eve Friday