Zelda Williams has denounced AI’s “disturbing” reproductions of her late father Robin Williams’ voice.
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The 34-year-old actress revealed in an Instagram Story over the weekend that she was disturbed when she heard the AI trying to reproduce the voice of her father, who died in 2014 at the age of 63.
“I am not an impartial voice in SAG’s fight against AI,” she began, referring to the actors’ strike. “For YEARS I have seen how many people want to train these models to create/reproduce actors who cannot give consent, like Dad. It’s not theoretical, it’s very, very real. »
She continues: “I’ve heard AI trying to let its ‘voice’ say what people want, and while I personally find that disturbing, the implications go far beyond my own feelings.” Living actors deserve that Chance to create characters with their own choices, sing cartoons and put their HUMAN energy and time into the pursuit of achievement. »
The Writers Guild of America went on strike in May, and members of the actors union SAG-AFTRA did the same in July. One of the main conflicts is whether their work could be replaced or recreated by AI.
Concluding her message, Zelda Williams insisted that AI technology will never be as good as reality.
“These replicas are, at best, a pale copy of more important people and, at worst, a horrible Frankenstein’s monster made up of all the worst things this industry does rather than what they are supposed to represent as something better,” she said .
The WGA strike ended last week, but SAG-AFTRA’s action continues.