Robin Williams' daughter tells fans to stop sending her AI videos of late dad: 'Stop believing I wanna see it'
Zelda Williams, the daughter of late actor Robin Williams, asked fans to stop sending her videos of her father that were generated by artificial intelligence.
Through her Instagram stories, Zelda stressed that she wants nothing to do with the AI videos featuring Robin, who had died in 2014 at 63 years old.
"Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, I'll restrict and move on," the filmmaker said.
"If you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's not what he'd want," she emphasized.
She went on to assert how disrespectful it is to Robin's legacy.
"To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to, 'This vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough', just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening," Zelda said.
"You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross," she added.
Zelda also implored her fans to stop calling AI "the future," describing it as "just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed."
"You are taking in the human centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume," she said.
This isn't the first time that Zelda had spoken up against the usage of AI to recreate images of Robin. She previously called them "disgusting" during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.
"I've witnessed for years how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like Dad. This isn't theoretical, it is very very real," she said in a previous Instagram story.
Robin passed away after taking his own life in August 2014. He was initially diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2012, but an autopsy later revealed that he actually had Lewy body dementia, which has Parkinson’s-like symptoms.
Zelda had followed in his footsteps and entered the showbiz industry, having starred in several films and TV shows. She recently directed the 2024 film Lisa Frankenstein, which marked her feature-length debut.
