Zelda Williams Doesn’t Want to See Robin Williams AI Videos

October 7, 2025
12:52 am

No, seriously. She doesn’t want that. Zelda Williams, daughter of the late Robin Williams, is not interested in seeing anything AI-related to her father. “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t,” Williams told her fans directly via Instagram Stories. “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.” An actor and director herself, Zelda has been staunchly against AI, and earlier this year, she called people out for using technology to “put words in their mouths” without their consent “grotesque.” The late comedian experienced his voice being used without his permission in the 1990s when Disney used Robin’s voice as the Genie in Aladdin to sell toys, despite his specific contract stating otherwise.

The Lisa Frankenstein director has been carrying on that legacy by fighting against the use of AI-generated celebrity likenesses for years now. “I’ve witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like Dad,” Zelda shared in 2023. “This isn’t theoretical, it is very, very real.” As AI has become more popular and accessible, there have been more efforts in Hollywood to use the technology to recreate beloved stars, like Williams, digitally. One of Robin’s Mrs. Doubtfire co-stars, Matthew Lawrence, who played one of the children in the movie, wants Robin to be “the voice of AI.” “I would love — now, obviously, with the respect and with the okay from his family — but I would love to do something really special with his voice because I know for a generation, that voice is just so iconic,” Lawrence told EW this past July. At the time, Zelda did not publicly respond to Lawrence’s pitch. But considering that the Williams family’s stance against AI has clearly not changed, Lawrence might want to start working on Plan B.

“Believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want.”