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Robin Williams' daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: 'stop doing this to him'

The Guardian

Zelda has asked people to stop sending her AI videos of her father, who died in 2014 at the age of 63. Zelda has asked people to stop sending her AI videos of her father, who died in 2014 at the age of 63. Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: 'You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings' Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, has spoken out against AI-generated content featuring her father. "Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad," Zelda wrote in an Instagram story on Monday . "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.


I Used ChatGPT to Resurrect My Dead Father

The Atlantic - Technology

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. I n 1979, five months after my seventh birthday, my father crashed his plane into an orange grove and died. Dad, a pilot, had gone up in one of his twin-props with a friend and lost control after some sort of mechanical failure occurred in the skies above Central Florida. The funeral was closed casket--an uncommon thing for Catholics back then--because my mother did not want people to see the work the undertakers had to do to stitch my father back together. So I never did get to say that last goodbye.


Creating A 'Dadbot' To Talk With A Dead Father

NPR Technology

He wrote about creating a chatbot that allows him to "communicate" with his father who died of cancer.