Filmmaker Zelda Williams — director of Lisa Frankenstein and the daughter of the late actor Robin Williams — issued a personal plea to his followers.
She has urged fans to stop sending her AI-generated clips that portray her father as if he were alive.
“Please stop assuming I want to see this or that I could ever be comforted by it — I won’t, and I won’t be engaging with it. If your intention is merely to troll me, I’ve seen worse and I’ll restrict your access and move on. But if you have any decency at all, stop doing this to him, to me, and to everyone else. It’s senseless, a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s not something he would have wanted,” Zelda wrote on Instagram (the platform is owned by Meta and has been designated extremist and banned in Russia).
She also delivered a blunt critique of how AI is being popularized today:
“This isn’t art — it’s a revolting, regurgitated mash of people’s lives, art history, and music, repackaged and forced down someone else’s throat in the hope they’ll accept it. It’s disgusting. And for the love of all that’s sane, stop calling this the ‘future’ — artificial intelligence is simply reprocessing the past for reuse. You’re watching a ‘human centipede’ of content from the very back of the line while those at the front laugh and feast on it.”
Robin Williams died by suicide in 2014 at the age of 63. In addition to Zelda, he was the father of two sons, Zak and Cody.
