Robin Williams’ daughter and filmmaker in her own right, Zelda, has called out fans and pleaded that they stop sending her AI videos of her late father. She also calls on people to stop calling AI “the future.”
Taking to Instagram (via Variety) the Lisa Frankenstein director stated that she doesn’t want to see AI videos of her father nor would he want to see it either. She also made it clear that people who are sending this stuff, producing, or otherwise profiting from it aren’t making it, just “disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings.”
“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. 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.”
Zelda has had this issue for some time, with her having similar issues in 2023 following SAG-AFTRA listing AI as “a mandatory subject of bargaining” during the strike.
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