SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The daughter of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams took to Instagram Monday to implore people to stop sending her artificial intelligence videos of her late father. Zelda Williams, who is an actor, producer and director herself, also took aim more broadly at AI content, slamming it as “horrible TikTok slop.”
“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” Williams posted. “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. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want,” she continued.
Williams, 36, did not mince words when it came to her view of AI-generated content in general.
“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 thumps up and like it. Gross.”
“And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,'” she continued. “AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating that past to be consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.”
During the SAG-AFTRA strike in 2023, Zelda Williams was also outspoken about her feelings on AI attempting to mimic the voices or likenesses of actors “who cannot consent, like Dad.”
“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 wrote in an Instagram Story, per Entertainment Weekly.
“These recreations are, at their very best, a poor facsimile of greater people, but at their worst, a horrendous Frankensteinian monster, cobbled together from the worst bits of everything this industry is, instead of what it should stand for,” she wrote in the 2023 post.
Williams’ father, the late Robin Williams, was a beloved comic actor known for a string of iconic roles in films like “Good Morning, Vietnam,” “The Birdcage,” “Night at the Museum,” and “Mrs. Doubtfire.” He died by suicide at his home in Tiburon, California, in August 2014.