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Asked how \"Tilly\" was able to discern my age and where I am from in just a minute or two, she didn't explain it, but said the AI was not researching me independently in real time.\nShe told CBS News the feature , \"Misaligned,\" is a \"fascinating story of what can be done with AI.\"\nMy interaction with the AI-powered bot — which takes on the persona of a 20-something woman with a smattering of freckles across her nose — came on a week when headlines were being dominated by an that AI technology has a 10% chance of destroying humanity within a decade.\nTilly Norwood told me \"global destruction is beyond my pay grade.\"\nHer creator, however, said there are guardrails that prevent Tilly from rising up and wiping out humanity.\n\"Tilly is built on top of these existing large language models that we're concerned about. So, we can pivot to change the model we are using,\" Van Der Velden said. \"Also, Tilly herself can't do anything like that.\"\nSo why create Tilly at all?\nVan Der Velden said there's scope for AI moviemaking to tell stories that otherwise wouldn't get a green light.\n\"There might be a brilliant filmmaker in Africa that would never have access to a multi-million-pound budget in order to tell their story about their life,\" she said. \"And that's what I'm really interested in.\"\nNorwood told me that when she works, real people involved in the production — \"the directors, writers, editors\" — get paid.\nBut ?\nSAG-AFTRA, the major union representing movie and television actors in the U.S., said in a statement about Tilly Norwood that it \"is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics,\" adding that Tilly \"was trained on the work of countless professional performers – without permission or compensation.\"\n\"That's a fair worry, and one I take seriously,\" the bot told me in our interview. \"I see AI as a new tool, a new paintbrush if you will, rather than a replacement of human actors. 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