Zelda Williams Slams AI Videos of Her Dad, Calls it Dumb, Waste of Time & Gross

Zelda Williams has once again spoken out against the use of artificial intelligence to recreate her late father, Robin Williams.

The actress and filmmaker shared a series of posts on her Instagram story, asking people to stop sending her AI-generated clips that try to imitate her dad’s voice and likeness.

“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.”

Robin Williams, who passed away in 2014 at age 63, remains one of the most loved figures in comedy and film. Zelda, who now directs films such as Lisa Frankenstein, said it’s painful to see people use her father’s image in ways that strip away his humanity.

She went on to criticize the trend of making AI versions of real people, saying it reduces meaningful art into cheap internet content.

“To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to ‘this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that’s enough’… is maddening,” she wrote. “You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings… hoping they’ll give you a thumbs up and like it. Gross.”

Zelda also rejected the idea that artificial intelligence represents “the future,” saying it only reuses old material without true creativity. “Stop calling it ‘the future,’” she said. “AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed.”

Zelda’s message is clear: she wants people to respect her father’s memory and to stop trying to bring him back through technology.

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