Robin Williams’ daughter blasts ‘delusional’ fans for circulating fake video

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda has posted a scathing take on the way her father’s image is being used online (Picture: Matthew Peyton/Getty Images) Robin Williams’ daughter has furiously called out ‘delusional’ fans sharing a fake video purporting to show her late father discussing conspiracy theories. Zelda Williams, 37, issued a blistering statement after becoming aware of a supposedly ‘private’ recording of the beloved Mrs Doubtfire actor circulating online. But according to the filmmaker, there is nothing private – or real – about it. She said the clip had been created using artificial intelligence and criticised those accepting it as genuine, pointing out that her father’s distinctive voice should make the fabrication obvious to anyone familiar with his work. ‘That supposedly “private video” of dad that I’ve been shown talking about conspiracies is clearly AI, and not even particularly convincing AI,’ Zelda wrote on X. ‘Anyone who claims to be a fan who believes it clearly listened to his movies on mute because that voice is robotic and terrible.’ Robin’s daughter didn’t hold back on X (Picture: X) While the technology may have produced the imitation, Zelda stressed there was still a real person responsible for deciding to use her father’s likeness in the first place. She continued: ‘That said, a human made a robot create it, and to you I say: leave him out of your delusional bulls*** and let him rest.’ She then turned the apparent subject matter of the video back on those responsible for creating and spreading it. ‘If you cannot make your case without making a dead man make it more convincing for you, then tell me: who’s the one manipulating the public thru media now?’ she asked. Zelda has become a fierce proponent of preserving her father’s legacy (Picture: Monica Schipper/Getty Images) Zelda went on to admit she had little love left for X itself, describing the platform as a ‘cesspool’ filled with bots and people prepared to believe them. However, she said she felt compelled to return and correct the record because of her love for her father. ‘Just because he’s gone does not mean he’s now your puppet,’ she concluded. ‘Have some shame.’ Williams, whose celebrated career included Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society, Jumanji, Hook and Aladdin, died aged 63 in August 2014. In the years since, his instantly recognisable voice and likeness have repeatedly been recreated using increasingly accessible AI technology, something Zelda has made abundantly clear she wants no part of. Robin shared three children with his wife Marsha, sons Cody and Zak and daughter Zelda (Picture: Allocca/Starpix/Shutterstock) Her latest intervention comes just weeks after she and her brothers Zak and Cody took the unusual step of reviving their father’s dormant Instagram account specifically to help fans distinguish authentic Williams material from artificial recreations. The page had been inactive since his death more than 12 years ago, but the siblings announced in August that they planned to transform it into an official archive of genuine photographs, footage and memories. Zelda later admitted it was ‘a little strange’ to see her father’s account active again after so many years, but said the growing problem of AI impersonations had made establishing a reliable source increasingly important. She explained that sharing genuine clips and photographs was one of the best ways the family had found to ‘fight back against rampant AI abuse of his voice and likeness’. She previously posted asking people to stop sending her AI images and videos of her father (Picture: Instagram) It followed an even more personal appeal in October 2025, when Zelda begged social media users to stop sending AI-generated videos of her father directly to her. ‘Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,’ she wrote at the time, making clear she did not find the recreations comforting or flattering. She urged people with ‘any decency’ to stop creating and circulating the material, adding: ‘It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want.’ Her concerns stretch back even further. Zelda later admitted it was ‘a little strange’ to see her father’s account active again (Picture: Michael Caulfield/WireImage) During the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, when artificial intelligence and the protection of performers’ digital likenesses became major issues in negotiations, Zelda revealed she had already heard AI models being trained to recreate Williams’ voice. She described the experience as ‘personally disturbing’ and argued that synthetic recreations could never replicate the person or performer behind them. More than a decade after Williams’ death, his family’s repeated interventions put a spotlight on a new problem facing the estates and relatives of famous performers: their death no longer necessarily prevents new ‘performances’ from appearing online. 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