Overview

• In an Instagram story on October 7, Zelda Williams asked people to stop sending AI-generated clips of her father and said she will restrict those who persist.
• She condemned the recreations as disrespectful and not art, likening them to overprocessed junk and criticizing TikTok videos that manipulate her father’s image.
• Williams reiterated that such content is not what her father would have wanted and said she neither wants to see nor engage with these clips.
• She has spoken out on this issue before, having called digital versions of her father “personally disturbing” during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA fight over AI.
• Recent coverage reports a spike in AI celebrity videos linked to new consumer tools such as OpenAI’s reported Sora 2 and notes growing concern among studio and talent executives without clear legal safeguards in place.