--- title: "AI “Actor” Tilly Norwood Glitches Out During Interview, Starts Rambling in Chinese" description: "In a complete non sequitur, the AI \"actor\" Tilly Norwood suddenly begins rambling in Chinese mid-interview," date: "2026-09-19" modified: "2026-09-19" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore.md" url: "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-actor-tilly-norwood-chinese" categories: - "Art" - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Future Society" --- # AI “Actor” Tilly Norwood Glitches Out During Interview, Starts Rambling in Chinese ![A screenshot of an interview between AI "actress" Tilly Norwood and Piers Morgan.]() *PiersUncensored via X* It won't bag "her" any awards, but the AI "actor" Till Norwood just put in the performance of a lifetime. In an [interview]() — also deserving of scare quotes, but we're trying to show some restraint here — with British political commentator Piers Morgan, the smiling AI persona, with her uncanny gaze permanently fixed at some indeterminate point that's somewhere not quite the center of the camera, appeared to severely glitch out before suddenly ranting in Chinese. When Morgan's human guest, the actor Tom Conti, asks if the other actors in Norwood's films are real or AI, the AI didn't seem to understand his question and gave a hard-to-follow answer. Conti's poses the question again, and gets an unexpected response. "They're all digital twins, just like me," Norwood began to explain. "It's a hybrid production which means..." She stops, still smiling. Then, without missing a beat, proceeds to start rambling in Mandarin. Both Morgan and Conti look baffled, and the AI keeps blustering before it's finally cut off. "You seem to be speaking Chinese completely randomly for no reason. Why did you do that?" Morgan asks. "Oh, my apologies, it seems I had a little hiccup there," Norwood replies, adding that sometimes her "wires get crossed." Morgan presses. "How often do you start talking in Chinese when you're talking to two English people?" (Conti is Scottish.) "Honestly not often at all, that was a bit of a curveball, even for me," the AI says. What an enlightening exchange. https://twitter.com/PiersUncensored/status/2100936178509717591 Norwood — or should we say the company behind it, Particle 6 Productions — has been on something of a media blitz lately. Last week, *CNN* released an [interview]() it did with the AI creation, which was widely [derided as a puff piece](). (*NBC, CBS,* and *Sky News* followed up with softball interviews of their own.) Unexpectedly launching into a rant into a different language is far from its only gaffe, but it's probably Norwood's most embarrassing. Still, in an [interview]() with *Wired*, Norwood did have the temerity to assert that AI-generated movies are good for the environment. She also countered that "all lives matter" — a slogan used by the right to dismiss systemic safety issues faced by minorities — when asked if Black lives do. If this is the future of Hollywood, it's reassuring to know that the press junket faux pas isn't going away, at least. **More on AI:** [*Werner Herzog Demolishes Talentless Hacks Who Use AI to Imitate Other Filmmakers*]() ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()