Robin Williams' children reactivate their father's Instagram account

The last message is 628 weeks old. Robin Williams congratulated his daughter Zelda on Instagram on her birthday: She is now a quarter of a century old, but for him she will always be his “little girl”. Four days later, on August 11, 2014, the actor passed away. His popularity has outlived him, the characters he plays remain in the memory of generations, and thanks to artificial intelligence he is - apparently - brought back to life.

That's one reason why the Instagram account "therobinwilliams" has been active again for two days. His children Zak, Zelda and Cody posted it to remember their father, who would have turned 75 this year, and to provide his fans with real memories. “As technology changes,” Williams’ children write, they wanted “this to remain a safe, trusted place where the stories, photos, videos and memories shared reflect his legacy in an authentic, warm and loving way.”

In old photos we see how the deceased greets family members, his daughter, his son, his ex-wife, how he poses with the two colleagues who doubled for him in the “Night at the Museum” trilogy or how he congratulates himself on his birthday with a monkey on his shoulder. As soon as the greetings from the afterlife arrive, there are comments from people to whom Robin Williams meant and gave something.

The “legacy of real people” should not become “trash for Tiktok”.

The fact that Zak, Zelda and Cody Williams preserve their father's memory in this way is of course also an act of resistance - against the AI corruption that anyone can easily do today. “It’s infuriating to see real people’s legacies being recycled into trash for TikTok,” actress and director Zelda Williams wrote on Instagram last October in light of the AI ​​videos and deepfakes that fans of her father were spreading and apparently sending to her en masse.

“If you have any decency, stop doing this to me and him,” she wrote. "It's stupid, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's not what he would have wanted. You're not creating art, you're making over-processed hot dogs of other people's lives, of art and music history, and shoving them down someone else's throat in the hopes that they'll give you a little 'thumbs up' and like it. Disgusting."