Robin Williams’ Daughter Urges Fans to Stop Sending AI Videos of Her Late Father: Calls It Disrespectful and Not What He Would Want

Zelda Williams, daughter of the beloved comedian Robin Williams and director of “Lisa Frankenstein,” recently took to her Instagram story to ask people to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her late father, who passed away in 2014 at age 63.

“Please stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” she pleaded. “Don’t assume I want to see them or that I’ll understand. I don’t, and I won’t. If you’re trying to annoy me, I’ve seen worse—I’ll just block and move on. But if you have any decency, please stop subjecting him, me, and others to this. It’s pointless, a waste of energy, and definitely not what he would want.”

Zelda criticized how AI reduces the legacies of real people to crude imitations that only vaguely resemble them, created just so others can churn out poor-quality TikTok clips that manipulate their image. “This isn’t art,” she said. “It’s a grotesque, over-processed remix of a human life and creative history forced upon viewers to earn cheap likes. It’s disgusting.”

She went on to reject claims that AI represents the future, calling it simply a “bad recycling” of the past, likening content creation to a toxic “Human Centipede” where the mass consumes and mocks endlessly.

This isn’t the first time Zelda has spoken out against AI recreations of her father. In 2023, when SAG-AFTRA made AI-generated likenesses a key bargaining topic during their strike, she called such recreations “personally disturbing.”

“I’m not neutral in SAG’s fight against AI,” she wrote then. “I’ve seen how people want to train AI models to reproduce actors who can’t consent, like Dad. This isn’t a theory—it’s happening.”

She also addressed how AI can use her father’s voice to say anything, which she finds troubling. But beyond her personal feelings, she defended living actors’ rights to create performances on their own terms. Zelda warned that AI recreations at best offer poor copies of real people, but at worst, are abominations pieced together from the worst aspects of the entertainment industry, undermining what acting should represent.