Zelda Williams, daughter of beloved late actor Robin Williams, is speaking out against fans using AI to create “disgusting” videos of her father.
The 36-year-old recently shared a message to her Instagram Stories, both admonishing the use of AI while pleading with fans to stop sharing videos featuring real people.
“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” Zelda posted to her Story, via the New York Post. “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,” the Lisa Frankenstein director continued. “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 seethed. “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.”
Zelda finished her rant with a single, scathing word. “Gross,” she added.
Williams died by suicide in 2014 following a struggle with severe depression in his final years. While conducting the actor’s autopsy, doctors found evidence of Lewy body dementia, which affects the brain’s ability to transmit signals and causes cognitive problems such as confusion, reduced attention span, and memory loss.
In the immediate aftermath of Williams’ passing on August 10, 2014, Zelda shared some words about her father, noting that he was “always warm, even in his darkest moments.”
“Dad was, is and always will be one of the kindest, most generous, gentlest souls I’ve ever known,” she testified. “And while there are few things I know for certain right now, one of them is that not just my world, but the entire world is forever a little darker, less colorful and less full of laughter in his absence. We’ll just have to work twice as hard to fill it back up again.”
