Zelda Williams, left, spoke out against AI videos of her late father, Robin Williams, in a recent Instagram story.

Robin Williams' daughter is speaking out against a "disgusting" trend.

Zelda Williams, the 36-year-old daughter of the late comedian, asked fans to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her father in an Instagram story on Monday, Oct. 6.

"Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't," she wrote. "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."

The actor and director went on to further criticize those who use AI technology to imitate the deceased.

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

Robin Williams died by suicide in August 2014 at age 63.

After his death, a medical examiner's report found that the comedian had Lewy body dementia, which according to the Mayo Clinic is the second most common kind of dementia after Alzheimer's and causes a "decline in mental abilities that gradually gets worse over time." Williams' widow, Susan Schneider Williams, described the disease as the "terrorist inside my husband's brain."

Zelda Williams was the "Good Will Hunting" actor's only daughter, whom he shared with his second wife, Marsha. The comedian also had two sons: Zachary, 42, and Cody, 33.

Zelda, who was named after Princess Zelda from the "Legend of Zelda" video game franchise, followed in her dad's footsteps as an actor and voiced Kuvira in the animated series "The Legend of Korra." In 2024, she made her feature directorial debut with the horror-comedy "Lisa Frankenstein," starring Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse.

This isn't Williams' first time speaking out against AI being used to mimic the "Mrs. Doubtfire" star.

In 2023, the "Dead of Summer" star discussed the issue amid the SAG-AFTRA actors' strike, during which concerns about AI was a major issue. In an Instagram story at the time, Williams said that she had "witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent," including her late father.

"I've already heard AI used to get his 'voice' to say whatever people want and while I find it personally disturbing, the ramifications go far beyond my own feelings," she wrote. "Living actors deserve a chance to create characters with their choices, to voice cartoons, to put their HUMAN effort and time into the pursuit of performance."

Williams' latest comments come amid controversy surrounding "Tilly Norwood," a creation of the artificial intelligence production studio Particle6 that has been billed as an "actress." An Instagram account for Norwood has shared AI "screen tests" and "stills," and Particle6 founder Eline Van Der Velden claimed talent agents are interested in signing the AI character. Numerous celebrities and SAG-AFTRA have spoken out to express outrage.

"SAG-AFTRA believes creativity is, and should remain, human-centered. The union is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics," the actors' union said in a statement. "To be clear, 'Tilly Norwood' is not an actor, it's a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation."

Contributing: Jayme Deerwester and Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY

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