By Regan Morris
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“That’s an AI? Good Lord, we’re screwed,” The Oscar-nominated actress said when shown a video of Norwood. “That is really, really scary, Come on, agencies, don’t do that. Please stop. Please stop taking away our human connection.”
On the US chat show The View, comedian and actress Whoopi Goldberg said audiences can tell the difference between humans and synthetic performers. She was sceptical over concerns that AI creations would steal jobs from human actors because they “move differently, our faces move differently, our bodies move differently”.
While Norwood’s Instagram has been active for months, her existence gained notoriety in Hollywood this week after trade publication Deadline reported on a summit her creator presented at in Zurich over the weekend.
Van der Velden discussed her AI production studio and her new AI talent agency – Xicoia – on Saturday, according to Deadline, and suggested that Hollywood studios and agencies were embracing AI under the radar.
She told the crowd they should expect public announcements about high-profile projects using the technology in the coming months.
