Viral AI actress' hotline face-scans every caller, watches their mood

Summary

Talking Tilly, a video-call service run by Xicoia Ltd for the AI actress Tilly Norwood, requires callers to pass an automated age check using a video selfie analysed by Didit, with a government photo ID as fallback. During calls the system analyses the camera feed and voice tone to infer the caller's emotional state, and the company's privacy policy says this cannot be switched off for an individual call. Calls are recorded and transcribed, and an automated classifier withheld one of the reviewer's three recordings for alleged abusive language that did not occur.

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