Zelda Williams, daughter of late actor and comedian Robin Williams, opposed the AI's generative content featuring her father.
“Stop sending dad's AI videos,” Zelda wrote on her Instagram story on Monday. “Stop believing that I want to see it or I want to understand, I don't, I don't. If you're just trying to troll me, I see something worse, I limit and move on.
“To see the legacy of real people, you can condense to the point of, 'Like this vague look and sound, that's enough.'
“You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hot dogs from human life, from art and music history.
“And for all love, stop calling it the 'future', AI is just recycled and refluxing badly to reabsorb the past. You are incorporating human content centipedes.
It's not the first time that Zelda Williams, an actor and filmmaker who directed the 2024 horror comedy Lisa Frankenstein, has introduced the recreation of her father, who died at the age of 63 in 2014. Theoretical, it is very realistic.
“I've already heard the AI get his 'voice' and say what people want. While I personally find myself intrusive, the effects go far beyond my own feelings.
“These recreations are poor fax machines of the best people, but at worst, the horrifying Frankenstein monsters are rounded together from the worst part of the industry.
Williams' latest post comes as celebrity deepfakes continue to surge across social media, ranging from porn and political content to fraud and ads.
In January, actor Scarlett Johansson warned of the “immediate danger of AI” after speaking out against Kanye West's anti-Semitic comments after deepfake videos of other prominent Jewish celebrities, including Jerry Seinfeld, Drake and Adam Sandler.
In August, a scam ad that was incorrectly spoke of erectile dysfunction by busy House frontman Neil Finn, urged the band to issue a disclaimer.
Robin Williams' deepfakes are part of a broader trend in AI slops, backed by the rapid growth of low-quality content generated for entertainment-free generation AI apps.
The recent video of Robin Williams from Tiktok appears to have been created using Sora 2, Openai's new video generator app. This includes the ceremony interaction between the Comedian and the late Betty White.
Within days of release, Sora's feed was flooded with videos featuring copyrighted characters from shows such as SpongeBob SquarePants, South Park, Pokemon, and Rick and Morty.
Openai told Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using the “copyright dispute form,” but individual artists and studios cannot opt-out blankets. Varun Shetty, Head of Media Partnerships at Openai, said:
