Robin Williams‘ daughter, Zelda Williams, is slamming fans who send her artificial intelligence-generated videos of her late father.
Zelda Williams, who directed Lisa Frankenstein, took to her Instagram Story on Monday, asking people to “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,” she wrote. “If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on. 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.”
Zelda Williams 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.”
Robin Williams, an iconic comedian and actor, died in 2014 at 63 years old.
Zelda Williams is the latest Hollywood notable to speak out against AI as it continues to loom over industry creatives. Last month, SAG-AFTRA and several actors criticized the news that a newly launched AI talent studio was looking to get representation for computer-generated actress Tilly Norwood.
Major studio executives and talent agency chiefs have also raised concerns over OpenAI’s new video app, Sora 2, and how their intellectual property or likenesses are being used on the app. However, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has promised “to give rightsholders more granular control” over their IP.
Williams added in another Instagram Story post on Monday, “And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. 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.”
