Robin Williams' Daughter to Fans Creating AI Videos: 'Have Some Shame'

ChrisArchitect

The struggle is real: 2025: Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45505626 2023: Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda slams AI for recreating her father’s voice https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37742529

the_real_cher

4chan and Twitter: "Define shame"

delichon

I remember being stunned by Mork from Ork. Then watched as the same guy grew into one of the most iconic and loved humans on Earth. Given the amount of brain share that he earned it's kind of inevitable that so many people try to bring him back. I hope his daughter can also feel the love in it. But shazbot to anyone who goes rule 34 on him.

zergrush

The irony here is that this article is now a giant invitation to everyone else who just found out about this to pile on and do the exact opposite

mulanroo

She has now asked three times, in 2023 about his voice, in 2025 about the videos, and again today. What changed between them is not the technology, it is what she is asking for. The first time it was stop. Now it is have some shame. That is someone who has worked out there is nobody to appeal to, only an audience, and asking an audience for restraint has never scaled. The enforcement falls on the family, personally, every round, because it does not fall on anyone else.

KennyBlanken

Zelda Williams is getting the AI videos forwarded to her by fans . People who are Robin Williams fans aren't making AI videos of him. The kind of people who are making videos of him are people trying to get engagement on social media. Either building an audience to then be an "influencer", or to sell the account to a marketing firm who will then use it to kickstart an online brand. Marketing company has a client with some stupid new kitchen gadget, so they buy a pumped up account that had Robin Williams memes intermixed with some stolen baking/cooking cartoons and memes. It's always about money...

ElProlactin

Are people here not even reading the article? The video Robin's daughter referenced in her tweet is being circulated as a "private video" of him. In other words, people are claiming it's a real video, or being led to believe it's a real video. It's not and therefore this isn't some misguided AI-generated act of love. It's deception, almost certainly to garner and possibly monetize "attention".

fwlr

Unfortunately, AI content creators have no shame, and neither do social media content curation algorithms; in the current configuration of the world, those two entities form a closed loop that produces and serves this shameful content to unwilling bystanders. From a God’s-eye perspective it is easy to say “we should change this system so this doesn’t happen”, but from within the system each participant can only say “let us follow our incentives to become slightly more rich than other participants” (and any entity that might’ve once held a God’s-eye view along with the power to make such a change has long since abdicated their role). It is decent microcosm of the state of the world if you’re looking to understand why younger generations seem so fatalistically, nihilistically depressed - they are simply aware that nobody can break these vicious cycles.

apexalpha

This lady needs some proper advice on this. She is only digging this hole deeper by feeding it attention.