Overview

• Posting on Instagram on Monday, Zelda Williams asked people to stop sending AI recreations of her late father, calling them gross, pointless, and not what he would have wanted.
• She condemned reducing real legacies to look‑alike, sound‑alike imitations and likened the clips to over‑processed junk and horrible TikTok slop.
• Several Robin Williams deepfakes on TikTok appear to have been generated with OpenAI’s Sora 2, including a fake Apple ad and a fabricated awards‑show exchange with Betty White, The Guardian reported.
• OpenAI said rights‑holders can file copyright disputes and request blocking, but individual artists cannot impose a blanket opt‑out, according to media partnerships lead Varun Shetty.
• Her stance echoes a 2023 warning about recreating performers who cannot consent and aligns with SAG‑AFTRA’s position opposing the replacement of human performers by synthetic characters.