Abstract:
Tilly Norwood, a generative artificial intelligence digital actress developed by Xicoia, the AI division of the technology company Particle6, is currently embarking on an intensive press tour to promote the release of her film "Misaligned".
However, in the process of being interviewed by many international mainstream media, the virtual movie star's technical performance was not ideal. He even suffered a system error during a blockbuster interview and bizarrely spoke Chinese on the spot, which attracted widespread attention in the film and television and technology circles.
In the latest episode of "Piers Morgan Uncensored", host Piers Morgan and famous actor Tom Conti conducted a live online interview with Tilly Norwood. When Conti asked whether the other actors he collaborated with in the movie "Misaligned" were real humans or digital avatars similar to them, Norwood first gave an ambiguous answer. Then after Conti further clarified the question, Norwood confirmed that the same actors were all digital avatars. However, when he continued to explain the hybrid production mode, the system suddenly interrupted. After a few seconds of pause, Norwood used unrelated Chinese to explain for more than ten seconds.
The sudden language switch shocked the host and guests. Morgan immediately interrupted and asked why he suddenly switched to Chinese answers without warning. Faced with doubts, Norwood quickly switched back to English to apologize, blaming the situation on a "minor system failure" and explaining that it was an internal "line signal confusion." He never intended to imitate or suddenly switch languages, and admitted that this sudden situation was an unexpected "curve ball" even for himself.
The Particle6 team responsible for Norwood's technical operations revealed that in order to cope with the intensive publicity schedule of this global tour, they deployed an automated response system to enable it to accept concurrent interviews from dozens of media at the same time. However, judging from the actual effects of CNN, CBS News and major talk shows, this high-intensity real-time interaction not only exposes the shortcomings of large language models that are prone to hallucinations and deviations from the topic when faced with questioning, but also once again widens the distance between virtual digital humans and real human actors in on-site response and emotional expression.
Although Tilly Norwood's development team has always emphasized that the generative AI actress aims to explore new ways of film narrative rather than replacing human actors, the frequent interaction failures and "language confusion" incidents that occurred during the promotion period not only failed to achieve the expected public relations effect, but also allowed the public and Hollywood practitioners to more intuitively see the fragility and limitations of current AI generation technology in real-time high-interaction scenarios.
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