Actress Betty Gilpin, known for her roles across film and television, has written an open letter addressed to Tilly Norwood, openly condemning the AI Actress. Published by The Hollywood Reporter, the letter is written in a way that makes it clear Gilpin is strongly opposed to the entire concept of AI actors. “Dear Tilly Norwood,” opens the letter, “They tell me you are an actress and a computer. I am an actress and almost 40. Let’s talk.”

Reading the letter, it’s clear that Gilpin’s entire purpose for writing it is to express precisely why she opposes the concept of AI actors. She expresses that Tilly, as a piece of programming, can never express the real emotions of a human actor. Here’s a later snippet from the letter in which she expresses this:

Tilly, you never had to be 14, so I’ll tell you what Google can’t. It feels like your soul gets a broken glass enema. You go from curious about this marvelous world to drowning in un-marvelous you. Who am I? How should I be? Am I alone? Your human brain answers “no one,” “invisible,” and “yes.”

Gilpin also expresses that, as an AI model, Norwood can be morphed and shaped at the will of her creators, so she’ll always look in a way that fits ideal female beauty standards. “I wonder if an eyelash or toothshine of mine from a screenshot 20 years ago is one speck of your billions of Hot Young Actresses mosaic that is your not-real face,” Gilpin says in a particular scathing part of the letter.

While many actors and unions like SAG-AFTRA and Equity have come forward openly opposing Tilly Norwood’s existence as an AI actress and the possible signing of her by acting agencies, Gilpin is the first individual to do so in an open letter/guest essay format.