Zelda Williams is calling for fans to stop circulating AI-generated videos of her late father, Robin Williams, nearly a year after she last took to social media to ask them not to send her augmented content featuring the actor.
In a statement posted to X on Monday, the “Lisa Frankenstein” director wrote that a “supposedly ‘private video’” circulating of her father “is clearly AI, and not even particularly convincing AI,” she wrote. “Anyone who claims to be a fan who believes it clearly listened to his movies on mute because that voice is robotic and terrible. That said, a human made a robot create it, and to you I say: leave him out of your delusional bullshit and let him rest. If you cannot make your case without making a dead man make it more convincing for you, then tell me: who’s the one manipulating the public thru media now?”
Zelda continued: “I hate this cesspool of an app. It’s mostly bots and people willingly being duped by bots at this point so not sure why I feel the need to come back to clarify, but I love him, so I will. Just because he’s gone does not mean he’s now your puppet. Have some shame.”
The iconic comedian, who starred in films including “Jumanji,” “Good Will Hunting,” “Dead Poets Society,” “Hook,” “Mrs. Doubtfire,” and more, died in 2014 at the age of 63. In recent years, his likeness has become a popular target for AI recreation as users continue to create and share augmented videos of the actor.
This isn’t the first time Zelda has voiced her feelings about AI; Back in Oct. 2025, she wrote “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad” on Instagram. “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.”
Just last month, she revived her father’s Instagram account with siblings Zak and Cody in an attempt to “fight back against rampant AI abuse of his voice and likeness on here.”
