(MENAFN) Filmmaker Zelda Williams has publicly condemned the ongoing circulation of AI-generated videos featuring her late father, the celebrated actor and comedian Robin Williams, in a heartfelt Instagram post, according to reports.

Williams, who starred in classics such as Dead Poets Society, Good Morning Vietnam, and Mrs. Doubtfire, passed away by suicide in 2014 at age 63. His widow later revealed that he had unknowingly been suffering from Lewy body dementia, which may have contributed to his depression at the time.

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” Zelda wrote on Tuesday. “Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t.”

She expressed frustration over the trend of digitally recreating deceased individuals for online content. “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,” she said.

Zelda further criticized these AI recreations, writing: “You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings... Gross.” She described the videos as a repetitive recycling of past material for entertainment, comparing it to a grotesque production line where the originators profit while others consume mindlessly.

The filmmaker has long spoken out against AI replications of her father’s voice and image. In 2023, she labeled such recreations “personally disturbing” and publicly supported a campaign by a media professionals and actors’ labor union opposing the use of AI in entertainment.

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