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Zelda Williams says 'stop sending me AI videos of Dad' because 'TikTok slop puppeteering' tarnishing dead people's legacies is 'not what he'd want'

Robin Williams wearing a pair of half-moon glasses (Credit: Albert Chau / FilmMagic—Getty Images)

Zelda Williams, the 36-year-old daughter of the Oscar-winning actor and one of the greatest comedians of all time, Robin Williams, issued a strongly worded rebuke to people creating and sending her AI-generated videos of her late father, who died by suicide in August 2014. It was later discovered Williams was quietly suffering from Lewy body dementia. He was 63.

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” Williams wrote on Instagram on Monday. “Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t.”

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