Zelda Williams, the daughter of the much-adored actor and comedian Robin Williams, has taken to Instagram Stories to urge fans to stop creating and sending her “gross” AI-generated videos of her late father, who died in 2014 at 63 years old. The Lisa Frankenstein director has previously spoken out against the use of AI and highlighted the wider implications for the entertainment industry, expressing a strong disapproval of the practice, especially when done without consent. However, that hasn’t stopped people from sharing content featuring her father, which, in turn, has forced her to have to reaffirm where she stands on the subject.
“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” Zelda wrote on her Instagram Stories, per Variety. “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. 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.
“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,” she continued. “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.”
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- Birthname
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Robin McLaurim Williams
- Birthdate
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July 21, 1951
- Birthplace
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Deathdate
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August 11, 2014