AI Actress Tilly Norwood’s First Press Tour Includes a Chinese-Language Glitch

One of the most unusual exchanges came in an interview with Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti that was recorded and posted online. Norwood was promoting the film Misaligned. When Conti asked whether the other actors were also AI-generated, Norwood responded that human writers, editors, and directors were involved.

“You didn’t really understand the question,” Conti replied, according to TechCrunch. He then asked whether the other actors on screen with her were real actors or computer-generated images, and whether she knew.

“Ah, right. You’re asking about the other actors in Misaligned,” Norwood said. “They’re all digital twins just like me. It’s a hybrid production which m–”

She stopped talking for a second, then began speaking in Chinese for more than 10 seconds, TechCrunch reported. Morgan appeared puzzled and asked: “Tilly, if I could just ask you a question. It’s Piers again… You seem to be speaking Chinese completely randomly for no reason. Why did you do that?”

Norwood apologized and said: “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?”

TechCrunch noted that when AI bots try to act like humans, they can be so convincing that people forget they are chatting with a computer, which can lead to dangerous outcomes. But Norwood, the report said, is so surprisingly bad at talking to people that it is almost suspicious.

TechCrunch also suggested that Particle6 Group may have calculated that people would be more likely to talk about Norwood if they were making fun of her, and that no one would take the upcoming film seriously.