Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda Williams sends message to fans about AI videos of her famous dad
The daughter of the late Robin Williams has begged fans to stop sending her AI videos of her father, in the most recent upset involving AI videos of dead celebrities.
Zelda Williams posted the message to her Instagram story, bluntly saying she does not want to see the AI videos of her father, calling the videos “horrible slop.”
Her father, beloved comedian and actor Robbin Williams, died in August 2014 after a battle with depression.
“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 wrote.
“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.
“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.”
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“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings.”
Williams isn’t the first person to speak out about the “horrifying” use of AI to make videos of dead celebrities.
Following the death of Ozzy Osbourne, metal fans were outraged when Rod Stewart played AI videos of the late Black Sabbath frontman in heaven at a concert in Charlotte, North Carolina, on July 29.
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One fan took to Instagram, saying the AI videos were “beyond comprehension.”
“I went to a Rod Stewart concert last night and witnessed man-made horrors beyond my comprehension,” they wrote.
“This is the craziest, most disrespectful sh-t I have ever seen in my life.”
After the death of Julian McMahon, his Charmed co-star Alyssa Milano similarly begged fans to stop making similar AI videos of the Australian actor.
“Charmed fans/accounts! I love and appreciate you so much but please stop using AI to fabricate emotion from Julian McMahon’s death,” she wrote.
“It is totally unnecessary when there are real moments you can use from his nearly 35 years in the public eye.”
“Please be considerate to Julian’s grieving family and friends during this difficult time.”
On the flip side, Kate Cassidy, the girlfriend of late One Direction member Liam Payne, thanked a fan who made AI photos showing her and Payne embracing.
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She reposted the photos, writing: ”Thanks for making these. AI is such a blessing and a curse.”
However, she received backlash from fans for supporting the use of AI, which prompted her to make a video asking people to “stop judging” the way she grieves.
“None of you have ever been in my position and hopefully you never will be,” she said.
“So please, please kindly stop telling me how to grieve and how I should be finding comfort and what I shouldn’t be finding comfort in. Grief is so different for everyone. There is no right or wrong. Grief is not linear.”
“I look at these photos and I’m like, ‘This should be a reality’… I shouldn’t be having to see these photos and knowing in a way, it’s fake, like this is never gonna happen again because Liam’s not here.
“But also, the other part of me is like, this would have been something that we would have created together, this photo, this memory, whatever it is.
“And it makes me feel like I’m keeping him alive so much by seeing these photos, and I appreciate people who make these, you know, AI edits and stuff, and then I see them getting bashed as well.”
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