The daughter of the late Robin Williams has begged people to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her father.
Zelda Williams, actor and director, issued this call via Instagram earlier this week, where she described these videos as "disgusting, over-processed hotdogs" made from the lives of human beings.
"Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad", Williams wrote. "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".
She added: "You're [...] shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross".
This is not the first time that Zelda Williams has appealed for people to stop sending her such content regarding her father.
Back in 2020, Zelda marked the anniversary of her father's passing with the following message.
"While I am constantly touched by all of your boundless continued love for him, some days it can feel a bit like being seen as a roadside memorial - a place, not a person - where people drive past and leave their sentiments to then go about their days comforted their love for him was witnessed", she said.
"But sometimes, that leaves me emotionally buried under a pile of others' memories instead of my own".
Zelda also made a similar plea for the end of AI inspired content in 2023.
"I've witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like Dad. This isn't theoretical, it is very very real", she said. "I've already heard AI used to get his 'voice' to say whatever people want and while I find it personally disturbing, the ramifications go far beyond my own feelings".
Last year, Sally Field who co starred alongside Robin Williams in the comedy, Mrs Doubtfire, revealed that the late actor changed the filming order so she could leave the set to be with her family following the death of her father. More on this here.
Robin Williams died in 2014, which led to an outpouring of grief and tributes which still regularly surface on social media to this day.
