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The Fake Actor Loophole: How AI Personas Dodge Hollywood's Labor Wars A digital actor named Tilly Norwood just landed a feature film role. She doesn't exist. She has no agents negotiating her contract, no union card, no stake in whether the industry treats her fairly—because she can't want anything. Yet her casting in the film Misaligned signals a quiet pivot in how studios might sidestep the consent and labor battles that have defined Hollywood's recent AI wars. This isn't the same as using a real actor's likeness without permission—the fight SAG-AFTRA has been waging since 2023. This is different, and…