Overview

• Posting to Instagram Stories on Oct. 6, she urged followers to stop sharing AI clips of her late father and said the content is not what he would have wanted.
• She warned that anyone sending such videos to provoke her will be restricted, adding that she will move on rather than engage.
• Williams called the AI imitations gross and low-quality, arguing they reduce real people’s legacies to viral “TikTok” puppetry rather than art.
• She rejected framing AI as the future, saying the technology merely recycles the past for consumption.
• Her stance follows years of opposition to AI likenesses during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA fight, even as some peers, including Matthew Lawrence, have voiced interest in sanctioned uses, highlighting ongoing divisions.