Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda begs online fans to stop sending her AI videos of late father

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"If you've got any decency, just stop," Zelda Williams pleaded about AI videos of her dad Robin. (AP PHOTO)
"If you've got any decency, just stop," Zelda Williams pleaded about AI videos of her dad Robin. (AP PHOTO) Credit: AAP

Zelda Williams is begging people to stop sending her AI videos of her late dad Robin Williams.

The Hollywood legend took his own life in 2014 at his Paradise Cay, California home aged 63, and his 36-year-old daughter says people choosing to make artificial intelligence videos of Robin is “gross”.

Taking to her Instagram story, Zelda wrote: “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad.

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“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.

“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: “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.

“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.”

The Lisa Frankenstein director blasted people who call AI “the future”.

She added: “And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future’. AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed.”

Originally published on BANG

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