Zelda Williams Takes on AI Clones: Zelda Williams, the beloved daughter of the late Robin Williams, has brought worrisome attention to the growing field of AI-made copies of her famous father. This past Sunday, she used Instagram to talk about her thoughts on AI’s problematic role, a critical issue in the current SAG-AFTRA strike that has shaken the top levels of Hollywood studios.
Williams took a very skewed position when she said that she had a stake in SAG’s brave fight against the rise of AI. She talked about how disturbing it was that people kept trying to train AI models, which gave them the unique power to create or re-create characters without their consent. Her father was a moving example of this. She needs to have a general idea about this. To her, it’s an actual, undeniable fact that needs to be paid attention to.
Zelda Williams, an artist who has worked as a director, producer, and actor, talked about how much it hurts her when other people use her father’s picture and voice without permission. The fact that her father’s “voice” is being used to support whatever goals its controllers think are right is a significant source of irritation. But her unease goes beyond the personal and beyond what she can feel.
In her moving speech, she talked about how important it is to let real actors paint figures according to their tastes. The machine replacements for artificial intelligence shouldn’t take over what makes it human: the blood, sweat, and tears people put into trying to be the best. Her whole comment was about the need to give these artists the freedom and independence they deserve.
As a depressing end to her talk, Williams said these AI recreations were imperfect copies of the famous people they tried to imitate at best. At their worst, though, they turn into ugly Frankenstein-like monsters hastily put together from the leftover parts of a project that had gotten dangerously off track and given up on its original goal.
Tom Hanks, a well-known actor, joined the fight the same weekend and told his supporters that an AI version of him would pitch a dentistry plan. He claimed that this “virtual twin” was not an extension of his personality in any natural way.
SAG-AFTRA backs up its complicated talks with Hollywood’s big companies as a new week starts. This high-stakes fight concerns artificial intelligence, a new area yet to be thoroughly studied.
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