Zelda Williams Condemns AI Videos Using Her Late Father Robin Williams

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Zelda Williams has urged fans to stop creating and circulating AI-generated videos of her late father, actor and comedian Robin Williams. In a statement posted to X, she said a supposedly private video of him discussing conspiracies was clearly AI-generated and criticized its robotic voice as unconvincing. She argued that people who use AI to make a dead person appear to express ideas are manipulating the public and asked them to leave her father out of such content and let him rest. Williams also said that her father's death does not make him anyone's puppet. Her latest statement follows an October 2025 Instagram appeal asking people not to send her AI videos of him, whether intended as trolling or presented as content she would want to see. Last month, she and her siblings Zak and Cody revived Robin Williams' Instagram account in an effort to respond to what they described as rampant AI abuse of his voice and likeness. Robin Williams died in 2014 at age 63, and his image has increasingly been used in AI-generated videos shared online.