Robin Williams' Daughter to Fans Creating AI Videos: 'Have Some Shame'
Zelda Williams is calling out fans who create and share AI-generated videos of her late father, Robin Williams. In a statement on X, she said a circulating 'private video' of the actor is 'clearly AI, and not even particularly convincing AI,' and told those behind it to 'leave him out of your delusional bullshit and let him rest.' It's her second public plea; in October 2025 she asked fans to stop sending her AI videos of her father, and last month she revived his Instagram account with her siblings to fight AI abuse of his voice and likeness.
Just because he's gone does not mean he's now your puppet. Have some shame.
- fwlr
Unfortunately, AI content creators have no shame, and neither do social media content curation algorithms; in the current configuration of the world, those two entities form a closed loop that produces and serves this shameful content to unwilling bystanders. From a God’s-eye perspective it is easy to say “we should change this system so this doesn’t happen”, but from within the system each participant can only say “let us follow our incentives to become slightly more rich than other participants” (and any entity that might’ve once held a God’s-eye view along with the power to make such a change has long since abdicated their role).
It is decent microcosm of the state of the world if you’re looking to understand why younger generations seem so fatalistically, nihilistically depressed - they are simply aware that nobody can break these vicious cycles.
- ElProlactin
Are people here not even reading the article?
The video Robin's daughter referenced in her tweet is being circulated as a "private video" of him. In other words, people are claiming it's a real video, or being led to believe it's a real video. It's not and therefore this isn't some misguided AI-generated act of love. It's deception, almost certainly to garner and possibly monetize "attention".
- apexalpha
This lady needs some proper advice on this. She is only digging this hole deeper by feeding it attention.
- Markoff
I will play devil's advocate:
1. All she does is creating Streisand effect
2. Nobody forces her to be on platforms where she can meet with AI BS of her father, she can interact only with her friends to avoid public BS and not try to be public celebrity (only thanks to beging his daughter, not because she achieved something on herself)
3. She is known ONLY because she is Robin William's daughter, somehow I feel there are monetary reasons behind her complaining, if not, then follow point 2
- ChrisArchitect
The struggle is real:
2025:
Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45505626
2023:
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda slams AI for recreating her father’s voice