Robin Williams’ Children Revive His Instagram to Fight AI Misuse

Inactive since Robin Williams’ decease successful 2014, the actor-comedian’s children revived his Instagram relationship Monday to combat what his girl Zelda Williams calls “rampant AI maltreatment of his dependable and likeness” connected the societal media platform.

“As we admit what would beryllium our Dad's 75th year, we're grateful to spot caller generations discovering his enactment portion longtime fans proceed to observe the joyousness helium brought into their lives,” siblings Zak, Zelda and Cody Williams said successful the post. “As exertion evolves, we privation this to beryllium a safe, trusted spot wherever the stories, photos, videos, and memories shared bespeak his bequest with authenticity, warmth, and care.”

“This is our mode of sharing his unsocial endowment and wit with the world, including the moments that made america and truthful galore of you laugh, arsenic we retrieve our Dad’s bonzer beingness and work. He continues to animate america and delight radical each implicit the world.”

Robin Williams. (Photo: Peter Kramer/Getty Images)

Zelda Williams commented further connected the determination successful an Instagram communicative connected her ain account.

“I’m atrocious if anyone recovered Dad’s aged leafage posting again to beryllium triggering. Believe me, I cognize it’s a small strange,” Williams posted. “Making that abstraction into 1 wherever radical tin find authentic clips and photos of him is 1 of the champion ways we’ve present recovered to combat backmost against rampant AI maltreatment of his dependable and likeness connected here.”

Williams has agelong made her disdain for AI-generated contented of her begetter known, asking fans successful October 2025 to “stop sending maine AI videos of Dad.”

“Stop believing I wanna spot it oregon that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re conscionable trying to troll me, I’ve seen mode worse, I’ll restrict and determination on,” the actress-director added astatine the time. “But please, if you’ve got immoderate decency, conscionable halt doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, afloat stop. It’s dumb, it’s a discarded of clip and energy, and judge me, it’s not what he’d want.”

Williams antecedently slammed the “disturbing” usage of AI to recreate her father’s voice, bashing specified recreations as, “at their precise best, a mediocre facsimile of greater people, but astatine their worst, a horrendous Frankensteinian monster, cobbled unneurotic from the worst bits of everything this manufacture is, alternatively of what it should basal for."

Williams’ revulsion astatine AI recreations of her dad’s dependable is not shared by Matthew Lawrence, who played Robin Williams’ lad successful Mrs. Doubtfire. Lawrence said past twelvemonth that helium would “love” for AI to recreate the actor’s “iconic” voice.

"I would emotion — now, obviously, with the respect and with the OK from his household — but I would emotion to bash thing truly peculiar with his voice," Lawrence told Deadline successful July 2025, "because I cognize for a generation, that dependable is conscionable truthful iconic.”