{"slug": "tilly-norwoods-press-tour-is-going-about-as-well-as-youd-expect-for-an-ai", "title": "Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI", "summary": "Particle6 Group's AI-generated \"actress\" Tilly Norwood malfunctioned during a press tour of 75 simultaneous interviews, abruptly switching to speaking Chinese for over 10 seconds during a recorded interview with Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti. Norwood, who was promoting the film Misaligned, told Morgan \"It seems I had a little hiccup there\" after Conti pressed it on whether its co-stars were real actors or computer-generated images. The incident highlights the gap between AI chatbots' humanlike presentation and their reliability in unscripted conversation.", "body_md": "Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actress,” is having a rough time on its first press tour. The production company that created it, Particle6 Group, has made it available for [75 simultaneous interviews with journalists](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/tilly-norwood-interview-1236700405/), and it seems to be [making](https://www.wired.com/story/ai-actor-tilly-norwood-told-me-that-all-lives-matter/) mistakes in all of them. (I was not invited to speak with it, and frankly, [I cannot imagine why](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/ai-actor-tilly-norwood-put-out-the-worst-song-ive-ever-heard/) Particle6 didn’t want to schedule that meeting.)\n\nIn one particularly odd [interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4yyBWkYSHs) with Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti, which was recorded and posted online, Norwood seems to malfunction and abruptly begin speaking Chinese.\n\nWhen discussing the movie that Norwood is promoting, Conti asks if the other actors are also AI-generated. Norwood responds by saying that human writers, editors, and directors were involved.\n\n“You didn’t really understand the question,” Conti replies. “Are the other actors on the screen with you real actors, or are they computer-generated images? Do you know?”\n\n“Ah, right. You’re asking about the other actors in *Misaligned*,” Norwood starts. “They’re all digital twins just like me. It’s a hybrid production which m—”\n\nNorwood stops talking for a second, then starts speaking in Chinese for over 10 seconds.\n\n“Tilly, if I could just ask you a question,” Morgan says, looking puzzled. “It’s Piers again … You seem to be speaking Chinese completely randomly for no reason. Why did you do that?” he asks.\n\n“Oh, my apologies,” the AI replies. “It seems I had a little hiccup there. I certainly didn’t mean to start speaking Chinese or impersonate Piers. Sometimes my wires get a bit crossed, you know?”\n\nWhen AI bots try to act like humans, they can be so convincing that people forget they’re chatting with a computer, which can lead to [dangerous outcomes](https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/23/chatgpt-told-them-they-were-special-their-families-say-it-led-to-tragedy/). But Norwood is so surprisingly bad at talking to people that it’s almost suspicious.\n\nPerhaps Particle6 Group calculated that people would be more likely to talk about Norwood if they were making fun of it, figuring no one would take its upcoming film seriously.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tilly-norwoods-press-tour-is-going-about-as-well-as-youd-expect-for-an-ai", "canonical_source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/tilly-norwoods-press-tour-is-going-about-as-well-as-youd-expect-for-an-ai/", "published_at": "2026-09-19 00:12:07+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-19 02:24:29.055721+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Tilly Norwood", "Particle6 Group", "Piers Morgan", "Tom Conti", "Misaligned"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tilly-norwoods-press-tour-is-going-about-as-well-as-youd-expect-for-an-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tilly-norwoods-press-tour-is-going-about-as-well-as-youd-expect-for-an-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tilly-norwoods-press-tour-is-going-about-as-well-as-youd-expect-for-an-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tilly-norwoods-press-tour-is-going-about-as-well-as-youd-expect-for-an-ai.jsonld"}}