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Robin Williams‘ daughter, Zelda Williams, recently weighed in on the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike and the threat AI poses in Hollywood — and her father’s legacy.
“I am not an impartial voice in SAG’s fight against AI,” she wrote in a post shared to her Instagram story, per Deadline. “I’ve witnessed for YEARS how many people want to train these models to create/recreate actors who cannot consent, like Dad. This isn’t theoretical, it is very very real.”
Williams shared that she has had her own experiences with the technology that she found “disturbing.”
“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 said. “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.”
She continued to blast the “recreations,” calling them “a poor facsimile of greater people.”
AI recreations are “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.
Hollywood is already beginning to see the effects of AI. Actor Tom Hanks had to issue a statement on his social media this weekend warning his fans that he had “nothing to do with” an AI-generated commercial promoting dental insurance with his likeness.
“BEWARE!!” he wrote on his Instagram. “There’s a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me. I have nothing to do with it.”
AI was cited as a major concern for both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA when they entered contract negotiations with the studios this year.
The writers strike recently ended after 148 days with the union earning an “exceptional deal” that included various protections against AI. Now, writers cannot be required to use AI in their work and must be notified if they are given materials that were created by AI.
The SAG-AFTRA strike is still ongoing, but negotiations with the studios are expected to resume this week.
Insiders say they are feeling “cautious” entering talks again, even after the WGA secured its deal last week.
