Robin Williams’ Daughter Takes Stand Against AI Slop Exploiting Her Father’s Image

Zelda Williams, girl of Robin Williams and the manager of 2024 fearfulness drama Lisa Frankenstein, has issued a steadfast ultimatum for fans to halt sending her AI-generated videos featuring her father.

“Please, conscionable halt sending maine AI videos of Dad,” wrote Williams successful a connection posted via Instagram. “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. 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.”

Willams is adamant successful her disgust for AI-generated contented and the civilization astir it.

“To ticker the legacies of existent radical beryllium condensed down to ‘this vaguely looks and sounds similar them truthful that’s enough’, conscionable truthful different radical tin churn retired horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening,” her connection explained. “You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs retired of the lives of quality beings, retired of the past of creation and music, and past shoving them down idiosyncratic else’s pharynx hoping they’ll springiness you a small thumbs up and similar it. Gross.”

“And for the emotion of everything, halt calling it ‘the future,’ AI is conscionable severely recycling and regurgitating the past to beryllium reconsumed. You are taking successful the Human Centipede of content, and from the very, precise extremity of the line, each portion the folks astatine the beforehand laughter and laugh, devour and consume.”

AI slop is "the Human Centipede of content", writes Zelda Williams.

Williams’ caller comments echo concerns she raised antecedently successful 2023 astir the usage of AI to emulate the voices of actors who cannot consent to it.

“I’ve witnessed for years however galore radical privation to bid these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, similar Dad,” she wrote astatine the time. “This isn’t theoretical, it is very, precise real.”

Williams’ comments came successful enactment of the Screen Actors Guild's (SAG) combat against AI.

Robin Williams died successful August 2014. The Academy Award-winning histrion and drama icon was 63.

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