As I was scrolling on TikTok the other evening, I was stopped in my tracks when I came across a video of the late actor, Robin Williams. In the face-to-camera clip, “he” was discussing loneliness, low mood and depression, telling viewers that things will get better.
The likeness to the Mrs Doubtfire star not only struck me as uncanny, it disturbed me to my core – because, although it looked and sounded like him, it wasn’t. Someone had gone out of their way to create an AI-generated version of him, some 11 years after his death.
