Robin Williams’ daughter, Zelda Williams, is sick of people sending her AI-generated videos of her late father, who died in 2014 at 63 years old.
In a post shared on her Instagram Stories, the 36-year-old actress and director asked fans to stop sending her these videos, which she deemed “gross” and not what he would have wanted.
“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” she wrote, as seen below. “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.”
She continued to question why anyone would want to see “the legacies of real people” reduced to “horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them” that only vaguely resembles the individuals.
“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,” she wrote. “Gross.”
Zelda also asked people to stop insisting that artificial intelligence is “the future” of entertainment.
“AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed,” she concluded. “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 has spoken out about AI-generated depictions of her late father in the past, calling videos she saw in 2023 “personally disturbing.” At the time, she issued a statement amid the 2023 SAG-AFTRA negotiations with studios, which listed AI recreations of talent crucial factor.
“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,” she said at the time.
Last year, she also spoke out against “AI written BS” that claimed her late father had a “pet monkey,” which was accompanied by a picture of him with the actor monkey Crystal, with whom he starred in Night at the Museum.
“It’s been brought to my attention some probably AI-written BS like this is going viral," she wrote. "Dad didn’t own a pet monkey, NO ONE should, and if you’re ever tempted to, support your local exotic animal rescues instead. That is his Night at the Museum costar, who now lives at one."