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“Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t,” Zelda Williams wrote.
LOS ANGELES — Zelda Williams is pleading with social media users to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her late father, comedian Robin Williams, more than a decade after his death.
In a series of Instagram Stories posted Monday, the 36-year-old filmmaker issued a strongly worded message asking people to stop creating and sharing the artificial intelligence videos of her father.
“Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t,” Williams 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.”
Williams called the videos a “waste of time and energy,” adding that creating such content is “NOT what he’d want.”
The director, whose credits include “Lisa Frankenstein,” expanded her criticism beyond videos of her father to address a broader trend of AI-generated content featuring deceased celebrities that has proliferated on social media platforms in recent weeks.
“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings,” Williams wrote in a subsequent post.
She described artificial intelligence as “badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be consumed,” comparing the phenomenon to consuming content from the end of a human centipede while those profiting from it “laugh and laugh, consume and consume.”
This is not the first time Williams has spoken out against AI recreations of her father. In October 2023, during the SAG-AFTRA strike, she voiced concerns about the technology when actors’ digital likeness rights emerged as a key bargaining issue.
“I am not an impartial voice in SAG’s fight against AI,” Williams wrote at the time. “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.”
Williams described watching AI tools recreate her father’s voice as “personally disturbing” and said the issue extends “far beyond my own feelings.”
“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,” she wrote.
Robin Williams, a prolific comedian and actor, died in August 2014 at age 63. He is survived by his daughter Zelda and sons Zachary “Zak” Williams and Cody Alan Williams, as well as his widow, Susan Schneider.
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