AI ‘stars’ like Tilly Norwood and Xania Mamet are raking in millions, much to the horror of critics — but their creators are hitting back
NY Post
A quick trip to the bathroom changed Eline Van der Velden’s life — and Hollywood — forever.
There, in the privacy of her porcelain escape, the artificial intelligence innovator was hit with a stroke of genius. It was a thunderbolt that would ultimately irk the A-list likes of Whoopi Goldberg, Emily Blunt, Natasha Lyonne, Ryan Reynolds and top dogs at the Screen Actors Guild (to name a few).
“I remember it really clearly. In February 2025, I went to the bathroom, and then I came back to chat to the team, and I said, ‘This is what we’re going to do — make an AI actress. I think it’d be really fun,’” Van der Velden, a Dutch comedy actor and physicist, based in the UK, exclusively told The Post with a laugh. “We had originally [called her] the ‘Scarlett Johansson of AI.’”
To engineer the faux Scar-Jo, Van der Velden and her team of 15 creators at Particle 6, a London-based AI production studio, immediately sprang into action.
Utilizing 10 different AI-generation tools and platforms, such as Deepseek, ChatGPT, ElevenLabs and Gemini, they drafted 2,000 iterations of their cyber showgirl before finally birthing Tilly Norwood — a 24-year-old British brunette with girl-next-door allure.
The visionaries spent hours laboring over her name, ensuring it sounded authentically British and universally unique. For her comely appeal, they designed her physique to resemble that of a “beautiful, whitish-looking young woman” who’d resonate with global audiences.
