Futurism iconFuturismSep 22, 2026 ~2 min source read

Zelda Williams Condemns AI Deepfakes of Robin Williams, Calls for Respect

"If you cannot make your case without making a dead man make it more convincing for you, then tell me: who's the one manipulating the public thru media now?" Williams also took umbrage with the abysmal state of Musk's microblogging platform, which has become renowned for facilitating the spread of disinformation and hate speech. His surviving daughter and film director Zelda Williams has been watching with dismay.

Robin Williams’ Daughter Horrified by People Creating AI Conspiracy Videos of Her Dad Long After His Death

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His surviving daughter and film director Zelda Williams has been watching with dismay.

In 2023, she found AI models that were used to mimic his voice " personally disturbing." Two years later, after text-to-video generators became popular, she sent out a similar plea.

"That supposedly 'private video' of dad that I've been shown talking about conspiracies is clearly AI, and not even particularly convincing AI," she tweeted on Monday.

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His surviving daughter and film director Zelda Williams has been watching with dismay. "That supposedly 'private video' of dad that I've been shown talking about conspiracies is clearly AI, and not even particularly convincing AI," she tweeted on Monday. "The real elite, the ones at the very top, they don't just play power games, they worship something much darker," the AI imitation of Williams added, conspiratorially.

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  • As the affixed community note points out, it's a deepfake that falsely claims to "show a 2013 private Robin Williams recording." Nonetheless, the video was shared thousands of times and received over 11,000...
  • In 2023, she found AI models that were used to mimic his voice " personally disturbing." Two years later, after text-to-video generators became popular, she sent out a similar plea.
  • In her statement, Zelda Williams singled out those spreading the AI content.
  • "Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't." More on AI slop:
  • Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month.article-sidebar]:pt-0">

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"If you cannot make your case without making a dead man make it more convincing for you, then tell me: who's the one manipulating the public thru media now?" Williams also took umbrage with the abysmal state of Musk's microblogging platform, which has become renowned for facilitating the spread of disinformation and hate speech. "It's mostly bots and people willingly being duped by bots at this point so not sure why I feel the need to come back to clarify, but I love him, so I will." "Just because he's gone does not mean he's now your puppet," Williams added of her father.

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"Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad," she wrote at the time.

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  • Variety: Zelda Williams is calling for fans to stop circulating videos of her late father, Robin Williams, nearly a year after she last took to social media to ask them not to send her augmented content featuring...
  • Thepinknews: The actor and director said the "private video" was "clearly AI", calling X a "cesspool" of bots and urging fans to stop sharing it.
  • Futurism: "it's been challenging to absorb and or ignore."
  • Crosswalk: Stella Parton is fiercely condemning the use of content of her late sister, Dolly Parton, decrying the exploitative nature of such creations amidst the family's private grief.
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Robin Williams’ Daughter Calls for Fans Creating AI Videos of the Actor to ‘Have Some Shame’: ‘Leave Him Out of Your Delusional Bulls—’
Variety iconVarietySep 21, 2026

Robin Williams’ Daughter Calls for Fans Creating AI Videos of the Actor to ‘Have Some Shame’: ‘Leave Him Out of Your Delusional Bulls—’

Zelda Williams is calling for fans to stop circulating AI-generated videos of her late father, Robin Williams, nearly a year after she last took to social media to ask them not to send her augmented content featuring the actor. In a statement posted to X on Monday, the “Lisa Frankenstein” director wrote that a “suppose

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