an AI actress interviewed with CNN and it guessed the journalist's age and location within a minute

In case you missed it this funny story, Tilly Norwood is an AI-generated "actress" from a studio called Particle6, and this week she did interactive press sessions with CNN, NBC and CBS. the write-ups are worth reading. a CBS journalist said the thing creeped her out because within about a minute it had worked out her age and roughly where in the US she was from. an NBC reporter said it felt like talking to a chatbot. SAG-AFTRA had already put out a statement saying it isn't an actor, it's a character trained on real performers. the studio says around 40 more are coming. what got me is that the discomfort wasn't really about quality. nobody said it looked bad. they said it felt wrong to be talked to by something presenting itself as a person who doesn't exist. and I think that's the actual line, not "ai video good or bad". I have worked with avatar tools when they first came out (things like Argil, HeyGen…) and the thing it does is make a video of a real person from their own script with their consent. that's a disclosed stand-in for someone who exists. a fabricated human doing press interviews as if she has a career is a different product entirely, and lumping them together is how this whole conversation stays stupid. genuinely curious where other people put that line. is a company using an avatar of their own founder the same thing to you as an invented actress, or are those different problems?