‘Stop sending me AI videos of Dad … it’s not what he’d want’

Zelda Williams has had enough of the AI onslaught.

She’s speaking out after being bombarded with an especially egregious form of impostering.

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” said Williams, daughter of the beloved actor and comedian Robin Williams.

Williams, 36, expanded upon that sentiment Monday in posts on her Instagram stories.

“Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t,” she said of the unwanted AI creations. “If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve see 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.”

Robin Williams died by suicide in 2014 when he was 63 and suffering from undiagnosed Lewy body dementia, having recently been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

Zelda Williams is the daughter of Robin and his ex-wife, Marsha Garces Williams.

“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,” Zelda continued in her post. “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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Williams made her feature directorial debut with the 2024 film “Lisa Frankenstein,” written by Diablo Cody and starring Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse.

The director, who is also an actor, rejects the way some in the entertainment business have embraced AI as a forward-looking tool.

“And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’” she said.

“AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed,” Williams said. “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.”

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Williams’ comments arrive as many in Hollywood have panned the introduction of the AI “actor” Tilly Norwood, whose maker touted that she was on the verge of being signed by a Hollywood agency.

The Screen Actors Guild is among those critics who point out that Norwood, whose creation and likeness benefits from the (unpaid) labor of many actors before her, could take opportunities away from real living actors.

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