Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, reacted harshly against the videos with artificial intelligence (AI) who recreates her father.
Robin Williams’s daughter criticizes AI videos that depict her Photo Father: X
“Please, stop sending me more videos with my dad“, Zelda wrote on Monday, in a post on Instagram Stories. “Stop believing that I want to see them or I will understand – no, nor will I do it. If you just try to troll me, I saw much worse things; I will restrict and move on. “
She continued: “But, please, if you have a minimum of decency, stop doing this and me. In fact, everyone. It is stupid, a waste of time and energy and, believe me, it is not what he would have liked.”.
“See how the inheritance of real people is reduced to «kind of resembles and sounds the same, so it’s enough»just for others to produce a horrible tiktok porridge, moving them like puppets, it’s really crazy“, This said, according to The Guardian.
Criticism of using AI for fast entertainment
Zelda Williams added: “Do not create art, make disgusting, over-processing decoys, from the lives of people, from the history of art and music, and then put them on the neck of others, hoping that it will give you a like or a thumbs-up. Scratch ””.
“And for the names of all holy things, stop calling that «the future». You have nothing but recycle and regurgitate the past to be consumed again. You are part of the Human Centipede of the Content, but from the tail of the chain, while the front laughs and consumes without stopping ”emphasized the actor’s daughter.
Zeldei’s experience with Ai and Deepfake
It is not the first time that the zealda criticizes the use of AI to recreate the image of his father, who died in 2014, at the age of 63. In 2023, in a support post for the Screen Actors Guild campaign against the abusive use of AI, she wrote: “I have seen, for years, how many people want to train these models to create or recreate actors who cannot give their consent-as is the father. It’s not a theory, it’s as real as possible. I have already heard the AI using «the voice» To say, whatever people want, and, although I personally find it deeply disturbing, the implications go far beyond my feelings ”.
“These reconstructions are, in the best case, the sad imitations of some extraordinary people, And in the worst case, Frankensteinian monsters, assembled from the worst parts of the industry, instead of reflecting what she should represent”, The actress and the director also stated.
The context of the Deepfake phenomenon and you have a slop
The posting of Zeldea comes in an increasingly tense context, against the background of the explosion of the phenomenon “Deepfake”, digital fakes with celebrities, circulating on social networks in the form of pornographic, political, scams or false advertisements.
In January, actress Scarlett Johansson warned on “the imminent dangers of AI ” After a Deepfake video with her and other Jewish celebrities, such as Jerry Seinfeld, Drake and Adam Sandler, went viral. In August, a false advertisement with Neil Finn, the soloist of the Crowded House band, presenting him talking about erectile dysfunctions, forced the band to issue an official warning.
Deepfake clips with Robin Williams are part of a larger phenomenon, called “Slop” – low quality content, generated for rapid entertainment, fueled by the growth of free generative applications. Several recent videos on Tiktok show the actor using the Sora 2 application, developed by Openai, including in a false Apple spot and an interaction invented with the regretted Betty White.
Openai said for The Guardian that content holders can signal copyright violations by “dispute form ”but individual artists or studios cannot request a general withdrawal of their characters. “We will collaborate with rights holders to block sister characters at their request and we will respond promptly to elimination applications“, Said Varun Shetty, the head of Media Partnerships at Openai.
