Zelda Williams — actress, director and daughter to the late actor Robin Williams — has spoken out on Instagram about what she calls "disgusting" AI recreations of her father.
"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 posted in an Instagram story that has since expired. She said she would simply ban those trying to upset her, before making a plea to others.
"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."
Robin Williams died by suicide in 2014 at the age of 63. An autopsy report found he had Lewy body dementia.
"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," Zelda Williams wrote in the post.
"You
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