Zelda Williams urges people to stop sharing AI recreations of her late father, Robin Williams

Zelda Williams called on the public to stop circulating AI-generated videos and voice clips of her late father, Robin Williams, arguing the technology reduces real legacies to inauthentic imitations. Her comments arrive amid heightened industry tensions over synthetic performers and digital replicas, from the rollout of the “AI actor” Tilly Norwood to union pushback on AI’s role in film and TV. SAG-AFTRA criticized computer-generated characters as lacking human experience, while actress Emily Blunt called the trend “terrifying.” The debate follows last year’s Hollywood strikes, where guardrails on AI became a central bargaining point, and underscores unresolved legal and ethical questions around posthumous likeness, consent and monetization in the entertainment business. Robin Williams died in 2014; his family has said he suffered from Lewy body dementia.

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