Zelda Williams Slams AI Videos Mimicking Her Late Father

Written by Aaron S.,

Editor-In-Chief

Last Updated: October 08, 2025

Key Takeaways

Zelda Williams asked people to stop sending AI-made videos that attempt to recreate her late father, Robin Williams;
She criticized AI tributes as disrespectful by saying they reduce real lives to shallow digital copies for online attention;
Zelda rejected the idea that such AI use is progress, and called it recycled content that lacks meaning and personal consent.

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Zelda Williams has asked people to stop sending her videos generated by artificial intelligence (AI) that attempt to recreate her late father, Robin Williams.

Robin Williams, known for roles in Dead Poets Society, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Good Morning, Vietnam, passed away in 2014. Later, it was revealed he had been living with Lewy body dementia.

According to a report by the BBC on October 7, she explained that she has no interest in seeing digital imitations of her father and asked that people stop assuming she would find them comforting.

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Zelda criticized the growing use of technology to mimic people who have passed away. She called out the way some users reduce a person’s legacy to a digital image or sound that only vaguely resembles them.

She described this as a misuse of creative tools, which turns real lives into online content for clicks and attention.

She said the clips were not artistic but rather a way of processing and resharing the past without care or permission. She noted that these AI-generated pieces strip away the human value behind the original work.

Zelda also rejected the idea that AI represents progress in this context. She said calling it "the future" is misleading, as it mainly relies on copying what already exists instead of creating something meaningful or new.

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