Jameela Jamil finds it creepy that "AI actress" firm led with "a teenage-looking girl who can’t say no"

Take, for instance, comments made recently by performer Jameela Jamil, who, per Deadline, opened up with her thoughts on the Tilly Norwood debate at the Web Summit in Lisbon this week. Jamil didn’t mince words about her reaction to the Norwood character, which Xicoia—a division of tech company Particle6, created by founder Eline Van Der Velden—had featured in a few online videos, before they brought the Hollywood firestorm down on their heads. “Shame on it,” Jamil said, for “Being a teenage-looking girl who can’t say no to a type of sex scene or to a sexual abuse scene, who can’t advocate for herself, who can’t advocate for more money. It’s marked that it was a young woman, rather than a man that they came out with first and that she looks a particular way. I find the whole thing deeply disturbing.”

Jamil (who most recently appeared in theaters with a voice role in Pixar’s Elio) also talked more broadly about the technology, saying she finds the whole endeavor absurd because “the whole point of acting is to emulate the human experience and so having something that is not human trying to emulate our experience is not possible.” At the same time, she expressed fear for people who work both above and below the line in film and TV production, saying, “I can’t think of anything sadder than replacing these people and these departments with a computer by someone who isn’t an artist.”