Robin Williams' Daughter Zelda Calls Out the Use of AI & People Using Her Late Father's Voice

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Zelda Williams is horrified by the “disturbing” use of artificial intelligence to recreate her late father, Robin Williams!

Even before the recent WGA and SAG strikes, the idea of studios abusing artificial intelligence (A.I.) for use in films and TV series was being discussed. Sure, we are scared of a world where studios use generative A.I.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Robin Williams‘ daughter Zelda took to Instagram (via Entertainment Weekly) to rail against AI recreations of her father, the legendary comedian who died in 2014. Zelda called these recreations “personally disturbing.” SAG-AFTRA has listed AI recreations as a “a mandatory subject of bargaining” in its ongoing strike against the AMPTP, including “the use of performer’s voice, likeness or performance to train an artificial intelligence system designed to generate new visual, audio, or audiovisual content.” “I am not an impartial voice in SAG’s fight against AI,” Zelda wrote on Instagram.

Robin Williams’ daughter, Zelda Williams, is slamming the use of artificial intelligence to recreate her late dad.“I am not an impartial voice in SAG’s fight against AI,” Zelda, 34, wrote via her Instagram Story on Sunday. “I’ve witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like Dad.”She added: “This isn’t theoretical, it is very very real.”“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 went on.

Zelda Williams is calling out the “disturbing” technology that was used to recreate her late dad Robin Williams.

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