Robin Williams' Daughter Zelda Criticizes Efforts to Replicate Her Father Using AI: 'Personally Disturbing'

"This isn't theoretical, it is very very real," the actress wrote, adding that "the ramifications go far beyond my own feelings"

Robin Williams’ daughter, Zelda, is taking a hard stance against artificial intelligence in Hollywood.

The actress and director, 34, shared a post on her Instagram Stories on Sunday criticizing nonconsensual AI replications of her late father — a hot-button issue central to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike — and urging people to protect actors’ likenesses.

"I am not an impartial voice in SAG's fight against AI,” Zelda began, according to screenshots obtained by Entertainment Weekly.

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She went on to say that she has “witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like dad.”

Robin, the influential actor-comedian and Oscar winner for Good Will Hunting, died in 2014.

“This isn't theoretical, it is very very real,” she continued. “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 added, “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."

"These recreations are, at their very best, a poor facsimile of greater people, but at their worst, a horrendous Frankensteinian monster, cobbled together from the worst bits of everything this industry is, instead of what it should stand for,” she concluded.

The use of AI to replicate performers' voices or likenesses, as well as the use of performers’ voices or likenesses to train AI to create new content, are a “mandatory subject of bargaining” for SAG-AFTRA, according to an official letter penned by Jeffrey Bennett, general counsel for the labor union.

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On Saturday, Tom Hanks dealt with the ramifications of AI firsthand, taking to social media to confirm that an AI version of himself circulating online is not, in fact, him.

The actor, 67, shared a post warning his followers on Instagram about a dental plan advertisement that employed a computer-generated image of him.

“BEWARE!! There’s a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me.” Hanks wrote over a photo of his AI counterpart from the video. “I have nothing to do with it.”

The Elvis star previously addressed the growing use of AI in the creative industries during a May episode of The Adam Buxton Podcast, in which he said that “this has always been lingering.”

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"The first time we did a movie that had a huge amount of our own data locked in a computer — literally what we looked like — was a movie called The Polar Express,” he explained.

"We saw this coming,” he continued. “We saw that there was going to be this ability to take zeros and ones inside a computer and turn it into a face and a character. Now that has only grown a billionfold since then, and we see it everywhere."

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Earlier this month, Tim Burton also spoke out against “disturbing” AI imitations.

In an interview with The Independent, the iconic filmmaker, 65, spoke about the ramifications of AI in the world of animation, a conversation sparked by a Buzzfeed article titled “We Asked AI To ‘Tim Burton-Ize’ Disney Movies.”

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“They had AI do my versions of Disney characters!” Burton told the outlet. “I can’t describe the feeling it gives you. It reminded me of when other cultures say, ‘Don’t take my picture because it is taking away your soul.’”

The Edward Scissorhands director admitted some of the recreations were good, but said he didn’t appreciate seeing his distinct style mimicked.

“What it does is it sucks something from you,” he said. “It takes something from your soul or psyche; that is very disturbing, especially if it has to do with you. It’s like a robot taking your humanity, your soul.”

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