Zelda Williams Responds To Fans Sending Her AI Videos of Dad Robin Williams

Zelda Williams, director of Lisa Frankenstein and daughter of comedian Robin Williams, has shared a post on Instagram telling fans to stop sharing AI videos of her father.

The comedian Robin Williams, who starred in many iconic films such as Mrs Doubtfire and Jumanji, died in 2014 at the age of 63.

However, his daughter Zelda shared a post on her Instagram story this week telling fans to “stop sending me AI videos of Dad”.

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” she wrote. “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.

“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.”

She then posted a follow-up story, continuing, “And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.”

This isn’t the first time she’s called out this behaviour, either. Back in 2023 during the SAG-AFTRA strikes, Zelda called AI recreations of her father as “personally disturbing.”

Zelda, named after the titular character in The Legend of Zelda series, is also known for appearing in several Nintendo adverts with her father. The pair promoted Ocarina of Time 3D in 2011.

To this day she remains a huge fan of the series, and has even streamed it for charity in the past.

She streamed The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild when it launched back in 2017, with charity donations going to the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.