‘Stop torturing my dad beyond the grave, says Robin Williams’ daughter’ ran a headline on the Daily Telegraph’s website on October 7, reporting news that Zelda Williams had pleaded with fans to stop producing AI videos of her dad.
The Telegraph told readers that the late comic actor’s “voice and face can be seen and heard all over video-sharing apps, like TikTok, where eerily lifelike recreations of deceased celebrities proliferate, racking up millions of views”.
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And it reported that Zelda had written on social media: “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. If you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s NOT what he’d want.” She added that people were “making disgusting, over-processed hot dogs out of the lives of human beings”.
How did the Telegraph illustrate this? By, er, printing numerous images of the said over-processed hot dogs and allowing readers to see Robin Williams chatting to Freddie Mercury and depicted as a Victoria’s Secret model, along with another example of a mocked-up Michael Jackson singing about fried chicken. How’s that for decency?
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