ROBIN WILLIAMS' film director daughter has blasted fans for sending her eerie AI-generated videos of her late father.
Zelda Williams fumed, "Stop believing I wanna see it," in a furious rant on Monday as Hollywood continues to rage over AI replacing actors.
In an Instagram Story, the Lisa Frankenstein director strictly asked people to never send her an AI video of her dad again.
"If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, I'll restrict and move on," she wrote.
"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."
Williams said "the legacies of real people" were being tarnished by "horrible TikTok slop puppeteering."
She insisted that people using AI aren't "making art" but instead 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."
Williams blasted people who deemed AI an inevitable future and stressed that algorithms are all based on human creativity.
"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed," wrote the director.
"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."
Beloved comedic actor Robin Williams died by suicide in 2014.
He was married to film producer Marsha Garces Williams from 1989 to 2010, and they had three children, including Zelda.
This isn't the first time the actor's daughter has blasted recreations of her dad.
In 2023, she spoke out against AI-generated voiceovers based on Robin and fumed that he couldn't consent.
AI FURY
Williams' fiery comment is just the latest addition to the urgent debate over the ethics of using AI in the entertainment industry.
Earlier this month, a UK-based production company sparked global outrage after revealing the AI actress Tilly Norwood.
Physicist-turned-producer Eline van der Velden, the mind behind the project, said that Tilly is perfectly symmetrical and won't ever get bad press.
"We want Tilly to be the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman," she told Broadcast International.
"People are realizing that their creativity doesn't need to be boxed in by a budget."
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
Zelda Williams
Tilly starred in the 100% AI-generated short film called AI Commissioner, which was released at a festival in Zurich, Switzerland.
SAG-AFTRA, a labor union representing 170,000 people working in the media industry, released a statement condemning the new creation.
"To be clear, 'Tilly Norwood' is not an actor, it's a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers – without permission or compensation," the union said.
"It doesn't solve any 'problem' – it creates the problem of using stolen performances to put actors out of work, jeopardizing performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry."
Actress Emily Blunt, who stars in films like The Smashing Machine and A Quiet Place, also railed against the creation of inhuman actors.
In a podcast hosted by Variety, she said, "Good Lord, we're screwed. That is really, really scary,
"Come on, agencies, don't do that. Please stop. Please stop taking away our human connection."
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