By India McCarty
Zelda Williams asks people to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her late father, comedian and actor Robin Williams.
“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,” Zelda posted in an Instagram Story. “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.”
She called the videos “gross” and “maddening,” telling people responsible for creating this content, “You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of 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.”
In a follow-up story, Zelda wrote, “And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future.’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed.”
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Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda tells fans: “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad.”
“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. To… pic.twitter.com/Cw1zQsG0KW
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Zelda previously hit back at AI-generated content based on her dad. In 2023, she supported the SAG-AFTRA strikers who were concerned about AI use.
“I am not an impartial voice in SAG’s fight against AI,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “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 continued, “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.”
“These recreations are, at the 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,” Zelda concluded.
Zelda also slammed the Studio Ghibli AI trend that was popular earlier this year.
“The amount of ‘get used to it’, ‘it’s fun’, ‘stop whining’ that I see in response to anti-AI sentiments is wild,” she posted online. “I can’t stop you from using the stupid, water wasting…facsimile machines, in the same way you can’t stop me from talking about how deeply empty life will become if we relegate the pursuit of art or knowledge to a machine because some people don’t like the effort of learning, whether that’s an artistic skill or homework in school. Lazy doesn’t just affect the body, it rots the mind.”
Zelda might have a personal stake in wanting to put an end to AI versions of her late father, but many agree that there need to be limits on what this tech can do with others’ likenesses.
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