Zelda Williams, daughter of the late actor-comedian Robin Williams, urged the public to stop sending her artificial intelligence (AI)-generated videos of her father, saying she doesn’t want to see them.
The American actress and filmmaker made the appeal in a now-expired Instagram Story, where she reiterated that the AI-generated videos are a ‘waste of time and energy.’
‘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. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on,’ she said.
‘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.
Zelda also stressed that AI-generated content of real people ‘condenses down [their] legacies’ for TikTok and other social media platforms, likening it to ‘over-processed hotdogs.’
‘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,’ she said.
‘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 further said.
Doubling down on her frustration toward AI, Zelda said to stop calling it the ‘future.’ ‘AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed,’ she said. ‘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.’
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Zelda, who is the daughter of Robin and film producer Marsha Garces Williams, and is popular for voicing Kuvira in the hit animated series ‘The Legend of Korra.’ She also directed Liza Soberano as one of the stars of the Hollywood movie, ‘Lisa Frankestein,’ topbilled by Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse.
Her father, Robin, is one of the greatest actor-comedians of all time, died in August 2014 after a battle with depression amid his struggle with Lewy body dementia. He was 63 years old.