The daughter of late actor Robin Williams not too long ago made headlines after demanding that followers respect the life and legacy of her late father.
Zelda Williams’ fiery warning to followers to cease creating AI content material of her late father reveals she’s not the one one insisting it cease.
On Tuesday, Oct. 7, Dr. Bernice King, daughter of the late civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, piggybacked off of Zelda’s demand and pleaded with followers to have the identical respect for her father.
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Reposting it on X, King wrote, “I concur regarding my father. Please cease.”
Although it’s arduous to inform precisely what number of AI or deepfake movies and pictures have been created of Dr. King and Williams, it’s protected to say there have been at the least 1000’s on-line.
Many seem to have been created by OpenAI’s new video generator app known as Sora 2 and posted on social media platforms like Tik Tok or Instagram for leisure.
Zelda ignited the dialog on Monday, Oct. 6, when she first confronted followers with an announcement on her Instagram story.
On a black display screen with white letters, she wrote in a now-deleted submit, “Please, simply cease sending me AI movies of Dad. Cease believing I wanna see it or that I’ll perceive, I don’t and I gained’t.”
Whereas some folks could take pleasure in that form of content material of their family members, Zelda doesn’t approve and in line with her, her father wouldn’t both.
“In the event you’re simply attempting to troll me, I’ve seen means worse, I’ll prohibit and transfer on. However please, when you’ve bought any decency, simply cease doing this to him and to me, to everybody even, full cease. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and power, and imagine me, it’s NOT what he’d need,” wrote the “Shrimp” star.
She defined additional why she detested these “condensed down” movies of a folks’s “legacies.”
Zelda Williams (the daughter of the nice Robin Williams) positive had lots to say concerning the “Studio Ghibli model” AI photographs which have been trending not too long ago.
I believe these folks ought to learn these posts and actually take into consideration what they’re doing. pic.twitter.com/L1rFJYw1Pg
— Alb3rt0 (@APPictures9) March 28, 2025
“You’re not making artwork, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the historical past of artwork and music, after which shoving them down another person’s throat hoping they’ll provide you with somewhat thumbs up and prefer it,” she stated earlier than ending her message by calling it, “Gross.”
Like so many people on the earth, Zelda doesn’t appear to be a fan of synthetic intelligence in any respect and he or she shunned folks, calling it “the long run,” in her continued rant.
“AI is simply badly recycling and regurgitating the previous to be re-consumed,” she wrote in one other deleted submit on her Instagram Story. “You’re taking within the Human Centipede of content material, and from the very very finish of the road, all whereas the oldsters on the entrance snigger and snigger, devour and devour.”
On Individuals, followers joined Zelda in slamming individuals who created movies of the comic.
One individual stated, “God folks can actually be twisted to do this, smh.”
Another person wrote, “It’s simply merciless that folks would do that, after which SEND them to her! Her FATHER is lifeless! He killed himself, somewhat than stay by his physique and mind turning towards him.”
A 3rd individual wrote on their Instagram submit saying, “Wow folks don’t have the tiny tiniest little bit of empathy and decency, so unbelievable merciless to do one thing like that.”
Zelda was 25 when her Academy Award-winning father took his life in 2014. The “Jumanji” star’s physique was discovered by his assistant in his stepson’s empty bed room.
In accordance with his widow, Susan Schneider Williams, the “Mrs. Doubtfire” star had been battling despair for years and obtained a then-recent analysis of Parkinson’s illness. She reportedly claimed that Robin confirmed no indicators of suicidal ideas earlier than taking his life.
