Tilly Norwood creator Eline Van der Velden responds to AI video backlash

Tilly Norwood’s increase a critical botty of labor. 

From modeling to performing, and now singing, the doe-eyed diva, birthed through synthetic intelligence, is a artifical multi-hyphenate who comes with all of the works — and it’s working the nerves of people worldwide. 

But the bot’s creator, Eline Van der Velden, says that the haters have gotten all of it mistaken — completely explaining to The Post why she feels the AI ingénue “has real humanity at her core.”

Norwood, a fake 24-year-old bombshell supposedly hailing from the UK, makes the identical case within the verses of her debut single, “Take The Lead,” out Tuesday. 

Visuals for the ditty function the digitized dynamo belting out traces like, “When they talk about me, they don’t see the human spark, the creativity,” and “I am still human, make no mistake, my soul’s in every move that I take.” 

The music video — full with a computerized choir of background singer and a flock of phony flamingos — has already garnered over a mixed 57,000 views throughout YouTube and Instagram, in addition to a tidal wave of outraged from peeved actual folks. 

“This is truly one of the most awful, nonsensical, terribly conceived and poorly executed wastes of our planet’s limited resources I’ve ever seen,” an anti-AI troll ranted beneath the video. 

“This will be our downfall. AI is destroying our environment and our jobs. “Also, not human.”

“Just a human job-taking machine,” spat one other cringing commenter, whose anger was echoed by equally irked detractors demanding that Van der Velden be despatched “straight to prison for this Mamma Mia-trained monstrosity.”

But Van der Velden insists that Norwood’s music wasn’t meant to infuriate the plenty — though her bot’s mere existence has ruffled the feathers of on a regular basis people and Hollywood hotshots, alike, since storming the scene in late 2025. 

Instead, the pioneer says the tune is an effort in direction of bridging the hole between AI performers and the flesh-and-bone people who give them life. 

“The lyrics are meant to be both a call to actors to explore the opportunity with AI, and to demonstrate that human creativity is behind everything Tilly does,” Van der Velden, founding father of Particle6, an AI manufacturing studio in London, and advised The Post. 

To drum up the appropriate phrases for the music, the visionary and her staff of 18 — together with an govt producer, costume designer, inventive technologist, a comedy author and an actor — turned to an essay she wrote for Variety. The consultants inputted the article into a classy system, which, in flip, churned out the lyrics. 

“Then we moved to Suno to create the artist’s profile and the vibe, deciding on a contemporary pop-meets-musical theatre style,” Van der Velden defined, referencing the AI music producing platform she used for Norwood’s sound. 

“Tilly’s singing voice was 100% created in AI,” added the inventive, who can be a physicist — and a comedy actress within the Netherlands. 

“We prompted it based on her personality and her spoken voice,” stated Van der Velden. “I have a background in musical theatre, so I felt comfortable with this music style, and of course, it’s fun — we always want Tilly to be fun.”

But, to not strike a wire with the madcaps of the music business, Van der Velden assures that the musics video is “not explicitly launching a music career for Tilly.”

“She is an all-around entertainment vehicle with lots of strings to her bow,” stated the professional. “With AI, and Tilly, anything is possible.”