'You're making hotdogs out of the lives of human beings'

Robin Williams’s daughter Zelda Williams has asked people to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her father,

‘Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,’ she posted 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.

‘To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to "this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough", just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening.

‘You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

‘And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it "the future". AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.'

Her father, who took his own life in 2014 at his Californian home at the age of 63 and was understood to have been battling depression at the time of his death.

She has previously described attempts at using technology to recreate his voice as ‘personally disturbing’.

Published: 7 Oct 2025