Zelda Williams has begged fans to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her late father Robin Williams.
The Hollywood legend died by suicide at the age of 63 in 2014 at his home in Tiburon, Paradise Cay, California.
Taking to her Instagram Stories on Monday, Zelda, 36, urged people to stop messaging her with AI recreations of her father’s likeness and voice.
She penned: ‘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.
Zelda Williams has begged fans to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her late father Robin Williams
The Hollywood legend died by suicide at the age of 63 in 2014 at his home in Tiburon, Paradise Cay, California (pictured in 2009)
‘But please, 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.’
In a following post, Zelda described the videos as ‘over-processed hotdogs’ made from ‘the lives of human beings’.
She continued: ‘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.
‘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.’
The Lisa Frankenstein director also hit out at people who call AI ‘the future’.
She added: ‘And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future’. AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed.
Taking to her Instagram Stories on Monday, Zelda, 36, urged people to stop messaging her with AI recreations of her father’s likeness and voice
The Lisa Frankenstein director also hit out at people who call AI ‘the future’
‘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.’
Along with Zelda, the late actor also has a son, Cody, 33, with his second wife Marsha Garces, as well as a son Zak, 42, with his first wife Valerie Velardi.
Zelda previously weighed in on the use of artificial intelligence in using the voices and likenesses of stars without their involvement and/or consent during the SAG/AFTRA strike in 2023.
She said her father would have been ‘fighting the good fight’ with the acting union.
Zelda wrote in an Instagram Story: ‘I’ve witnessed for YEARS how many people want want to train these [AI] models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like Dad.
‘I’ve already heard AI used to get his “voice” to say whatever people want and while I find it personally disturbing, the ramifications go far beyond my own feelings,’ she wrote.
‘Living actors deserve a chance to create characters with their choices, to voice cartoons, to put their HUMAN effort and time into the pursuit of performance.
‘These recreations are, at their very best, a poor facsimile of greater people, but at their worst, a horrendous Frankensteinian monster, cobbled together from the worst bits of everything this industry is, instead of what it should stand for.’
