Zelda Williams asks fans to stop sending her ‘gross’ AI videos of dad Robin Williams: ‘“Not” what he’d want’

Zelda Williams is urging her fans and followers to let her late father, Robin Williams, rest in peace.

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t,” Williams wrote in a pair of text posts shared to her Instagram Stories on Monday. “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.”

Williams elaborated that, for her, “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,” insisting that those who continue to send her unsolicited, AI-generated content, “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,” she wrote.

Williams has previously been vocal in her staunch opposition to AI-generated likenesses of her father, who died by suicide in 2014.

“I’ve already heard AI used to get his ‘voice’ to say whatever people want and while I find it personally disturbing, the ramifications go far beyond my own feelings,” she shared in an Instagram Stories post during the SAG-WGA strike of 2023, advocating for more stringent guardrails against the use of AI in the entertainment industry. “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.”

Closing out Monday’s comments on the issue, Williams continued, “And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future’. AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. 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.”

Entertainment Weekly has reached out to Williams for additional comment.

Williams has been disciplined and consistent in her stance against AI, especially when it comes to the nonconsensual, digital resurrection of her father. But not everyone in Robin Williams’ life feels the same way.

Matthew Lawrence, who starred with the elder Williams in the classic comedy Mrs. Doubtfire, has repeatedly told Entertainment Weekly that he’d like not just to bring the actor’s voice back via AI, but he’d like Robin Williams to be the voice of AI.

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“Man, it’s a real shame that he’s not with us. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t hear his voice,” Lawrence told EW April, “I even wish, now with artificial intelligence, I kind of want to go to his family and be like, would you guys allow me to use his voice for some sort of creative expression? Because I hear it every day, in my head.”

In July Lawrence doubled down, telling EW, “I would love — now, obviously, with the respect and with the okay from his family — but I would love to do something really special with his voice because I know for a generation, that voice is just so iconic.” Lawrence reflected that, “During his passing, with the AI coming out, I’m like, ‘Man, he’s gotta be the voice of AI He’s gotta be the voice in something.'”

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