Robin Williams' Daughter Zelda Calls Out the Use of AI & People Using Her Late Father's Voice
Zelda Williams is speaking out.
The 34-year-old daughter of the late star, who passed away in 2014 at the age of 63, spoke out on Instagram Stories about the use of AI to replicate her dad’s voice.
“I am not an impartial voice in SAG’s fight against AI,” she began.
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“I’ve witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like Dad,” Zelda wrote.
“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 beyond my own feelings.”
“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 wrote.
An actress recently questioned the use of AI to connect actors with auditions.