Robin Williams’ Daughter Tells Fans to ‘Stop Sending Me AI Videos of Dad’: It’s ‘Gross’ and ‘Not What He’d Want’
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What the kind of moral imbecile thinks sending someone an AI-generated version of her own father is a good thing?
Oh. Sloppers. Yes. Of course. They already left their morals by the door to even use the plagiarism parrots.
There are very sick people interacting with ai as if it's god. The problem goes deeper than slop
Seriously. Yes.
I have no idea why anyone would do this.
Because some people actually think that interacting with ai recreations of your loved ones is a good way to cope with their loss.
Like some people lost their shit, when GPT4 was released, because it killed their significant other.
That is positively ghoulish.
Quote of Zelda from the article:
Perfect description.
The thing I find especially stupid about this is that there are so many hundreds hours of footage of actual Robin Williams out there already. Why would you want to fake more?
And why would they be sending them to his daughter?
Why the fuck are people so goddamn creepy?
I imagine they're expecting some beautiful moment where she messages back "Thank you for allowing me to see my dad again! This is so beautiful and you're a saint for doing this for me!"
An astounding amount of people are incapable of processing context. And are likely just layering vaguely similar events of people appreciating artistic renditions of the deceased without understanding how profoundly they screwed the pooch.
What I find most odd about this is that they don't consider that people can do it themselves. If I wanted AI-generated anything, from a video of a duck riding a bike for whatever reason to some weeb shit as a profile picture, I’d just do it myself. Yet these types of people "create" it and then post it everywhere, so it has the worst of both worlds: it is neither exactly what I was looking for, nor is it power efficient, copyright-compliant, or looks any good.
If they have fun making their computer spit out odd stuff, then if we ignore the power draw and copyright issues, sure, do whatever. But why post it as if anyone else cared, when those other people could just have their computers (or, realistically, a big corpo's computers) make something even closer to what they actually want?
Gross indeed
Fuck AI
Even if it wasn't AI, sending someone a lifelike representation of a loved one who's passed, doing things they never did is really creepy.
You're in the right community! Welcome!
We stan Zelda Williams, any creep who does this to her gets the wall
Damn... yes. I didn't want to read the article but you convinced me, thanks for quoting that bit.
If you do this, in any context, I hate you and want you to suffer. This is actually braindead, deplorable behavior.
About as respectful to the deceased as desecrating the corpse.
Even suicide won't get you away from this hell.
I kinda get why people might want to make some AI vids of the dude, but why in the blue fuck are you sending them to his fucking daughter??? "Gross" isnt the word Id use. Id think of something a lot more NSFW for that particular gaggle of cave brained cunts.
I want off this ride please.
Like, I’m not even going to ask you for proof because I believe it as is.
The world is so messed up and people are so hatshit insane this is not even such an unreasonable explanation
She has a point, jeeze respect the woman's boundaries
Damn, she has a gift with words, and is using it for a good thing. Glad she learned good lessons from her parents.
The average human is so fucking stupid.
AI slop is pretty much harassment.
Those fucking dickheads looking for validation.
The reduced friction to create something enables this sort of mindless interaction.
I’d rather send her Link memes (since she’s named after that Zelda). She might find it amusing but is probably tired of them by now.
Is this gif cycling faster than Neil Armstrong on purpose, or is shit broken
I think it's you?
I wish you could see it. It's not right at all lmao
Screen record I wanna see :)
Fine for me on voyager and I think you meant Lance Armstrong, but now I’m picturing Neil frantically pedaling on a stationary bike somewhere in a NASA facility while the scientists keep telling him he has to go faster
It's a way better joke this way, I'm keeping it. Unintentionally the funniest thing I said all day
It isn't on desktop. Sounds like typical app weirdness.
I have noticed that occasionally with animated images in Thunder, and I have not been able to narrow down what about the file causes it. Opening this post in both Thunder and Voyager, it looks fine in Voyager but looks like Louie Armstrong on Thunder.
Are you using app? Boost doesn't play gif well, sometime it's just slowmo and most of time it just freeze, you have to click it and then it will play.
She seemed to make a joke of it in the interviews I remember with her dad. She also assuredly has the means to change her name if she really cared.
Also AI Christopher Hitchens is equally stupid...
It is a massive insult to anyone's memory.
Yah, stop that, it is gross!
She should sue AI companies for using her dad image.
Who would think that would be appreciated?
People who suck at being human.
MLK's family said the same thing. People really don't have any basic decency anymore.
Alas they often deport the ones who do.
This is so fucked up, digital necrophilia is a better word for this ai induced hell
they sent AI sextapes? i hope not. that's gross indeed
Streisand effect may play against her, unfortunately
That's not really that effect, but more of a stalker problem. Why would anyone think she wants to see video of her dad saying things he didn't say? And guaranteed that the comedy being done is nowhere near his level.
Robin Williams was a comedic giant with shoes no AI could ever hope to fill.
Getting AI of him would be like wanting name brand Nutella, and then going to Family Dollar, only to find a knock off brand, but then finding out Family Dollar doesn't even stock the knock off brand. They only have the Ali Express version of the knock off brand.
I think I'd rather just watch Mork and Mindy with the real Robin Williams.
some people did, they are trolls with bad taste, now more of them will be aware of this target, thus the Streisand effect may occur, but i hope to be wrong
That's not how the Streisand Effect works.
would've been more useful if you described why, pretty sure could've be achieved with a short phrase
Zelda is not trying to keep people from knowing about something. She's telling them that what they're already doing sucks. If people decide to troll and do it more, it's not the Streisand Effect, it's just them being assholes.
Sometimes I wish we just called it people being assholes instead of TSE.
The Streisand Effect itself isn't inherently good or bad, and being an asshole doesn't really have anything to do with it.
Why not? He may have moved on to his next life, but his work persists. All the recorded kind, hilarious, creative things he wrote and performed... He would still want us to enjoy them, right? And I personally think that still continues to improve the world, even with him no longer in it...
I had watched reruns of Mork & Mindy when I was little, but didn't know that it was a spinoff from Happy Days. This nugget led me to watching this, and it was amazing. Thanks.
https://youtu.be/YR2X5-JOakE
The one I loved the most is now the hardest to watch as it deals with suicide. :(
https://youtu.be/RmZ-FuBThuQ
Black Mirror saw this coming.