AI-Generated ‘Actress’ Tilly Norwood Starts Rambling in Cantonese During Piers Morgan Interview
The AI-generated character Tilly Norwood experienced significant technical failures during a simulated interview on Piers Morgan's YouTube show. The model exhibited noticeable lag, provided generic responses, and unexpectedly switched to speaking Cantonese mid-conversation. The developers, Particle6, are promoting the character for their upcoming film Misaligned, which features a cast of digital twins.
- ▪Tilly Norwood is an AI character created by London-based developers Particle6 for the movie Misaligned.
- ▪During the interview, the AI model displayed lag and delivered flat, generic answers to questions from Piers Morgan and Tom Conti.
- ▪The character unexpectedly began rambling in Cantonese after a pause, which it later attributed to a minor technical hiccup.
- ▪The film Misaligned is described as a hybrid production where all characters are digital twins.
- ▪The interview took place on the Piers Morgan Uncensored YouTube channel on September 18, 2026.
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The AI character branded “Tilly Norwood” by London-based developers Particle6 is having a bad time on its press tour for Misaligned, its forthcoming and assuredly terrible movie. On Friday, the model powering Norwood swung by Piers Morgan’s YouTube talk show Piers Morgan Uncensored for a simulated “interview” that might be charitably compared to that feeling that hits the brain just before a migraine strikes. The model powering Norwood had noticeable lag time responding to questions, and when it did, the answers were either generic or misguided, and delivered in a flat tone. That was the Norwood puppet’s high point.
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