As AI continues to improve every day, new programs are making it wildly easy to create videos of celebrities - both dead and alive. There's a lot of discourse around the technology, and people are wondering when and if we will know things have gone too far. But Zelda Williams is making her opinion loud and clear, and is asking people to stop sending her videos of her late father, Robin Williams.
© GettyOn Monday, the 35-year-old daughter of the legendary actor and comedian took to her Instagram Story with a message for fans and trolls, blasting AI. “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," she began. "If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, I'll restrict and move on."
© GettyThe actress was also firm that her father would never want this. "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.”
Zelda continued, not holding back: “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."
© Getty"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 added.
© GettyAfter calling it gross, she had one final message, “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,” Zelda concluded.
It’s not the first time Zelda has spoken out about the rise of AI in entertainment. Back in 2023, she joined a wave of actors calling out AI recreations during the SAG-AFTRA strikes, noting how unsettling it was to see “robots” imitate human performance and emotion.
© GettyRobin, who died by suicide in 2014, was known for his deeply human, authentic, emotional range and spontaneity that made characters like Mrs. Doubtfire, Genie, and Sean Maguire unforgettable. No AI program will ever be able to recreate that kind of work.
Zelda opens up about his passing
© VarietyZelda's mom is film producer Marsha Garces Williams, and her parents divorced when she was 18. She was very close to her father, and has been navigating grief in the spotlight since he died two weeks after her 25th birthday.
In 2016, she opened up about how she faced it on Chelsea, explaining, "I just kept going, 'Well, okay. Today I'm going to wake up and love what I do. And then tomorrow I'm going to wake up and be happy and love what I do. And then the next day.' Because that's all you can do." "For a while no one would let me do anything. I think there's, like, that reaction of like, 'Oh sh*t. Are you okay?'"
AI videos aside, she's already shared how she wants him to be remembered. She told the Today show in 2016, “People should remember what they want to remember of him ... That’s their memories, that's what's important. I have mine and they are mine and I love that.”
As for what's next for Zelda, she has an upcoming project called "Don't Open the Door," in post-production, according to IMDb.
