Robin Williams’ daughter hits out at “gross” AI deepfakes: “It’s not what he’d want”
Robin Williams‘ daughter has hit out at “gross” AI deepfakes, saying “it’s not what he’d want”.
Zelda Williams has taken to social media to slam users who were sending her AI videos of the late comedian – who died aged 63 in 2014.
“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” she began on her Instagram stories. “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,” she added.
She went on to call the AI videos “disgusting, over-processed hotdogs” made “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 concluded her statement by pleading with users to stop calling AI “the future”. “AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed,” she said. “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.”
This is from Zelda Williams, Robin Williams daughter, begging people to stop sending her creepy AI videos of her dad.
Absolutely insane that it needs to be said. What the fuck is wrong with people pic.twitter.com/lXfeWAOcHd
— Scribe Phoenix
(@Crackerphoenix) October 6, 2025
Robin Williams has remained a much-beloved comic, with many fellow entertainers sharing their stories on how he touched their lives.
Late night host Conan O’Brien revealed he was consoled by Williams after he was fired from The Tonight Show, organising a day of biking for him at the bike shop.
“I went down and it was a Colnago, which is a very nice bike,” O’Brien recalled. “And he said, ‘I told him to paint it in all these crazy Irish colours.’ I get down there and it’s the ugliest – I mean, it was just greens and shamrocks and everything. And he was like, ‘You’re going to like that bike, chief. Don’t worry about it.
“I thanked [Robin] many, many times,” O’Brien added. “I just couldn’t believe that he was thinking about me.”
Meanwhile, Kathy Griffin has shared her memories of “magical” Williams’ help after she once “bombed” on stage.
“Robin came over and he’s like ‘I’m so sorry, I think I touched on one of your topics before your set, I didn’t know you were gonna talk..’ and I was like ‘You don’t have to apologise, at least you’re talking to me’.
“So I’d say he was the first person that knocked my socks off because he was so magical, whether he was on camera or not.”
Elsewhere, Sally Field has hailed Williams after recently revealing that he changed the filming order of Mrs Doubtfire so she could leave filming after her father died.
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