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  • i mean.. i get it.

    i'd never do it.

    but this is the internet. people are making AI videos of everyone and everything.

    no offense, but RW isn't special there are many famous people out there and it just comes with the territory of being famous.

    if it is a good AI video and i think it is funny or good, i'll give it a like and move on.

    you're free to downvote me if you disagree, because either way, in this case both up and down votes prove me right.

    edit: since I can't reply directly for a bit, here's some updates:

    clipsy: So your worldview boils down to: if something happens a lot, it can't be bad?

    ^ so you want to force/compel people to your world view? feel free to join Mao, Stalin, and other [famous - lol] people who did the same!

    Barbing: Where are you seeing AI edits?

    ^ the internet exists, you can go on social media like X, IG, Reddit, etc. unless you're holier than others and "better" and thus don't go anywhere on the internet because you're too busy changing the world or whatever from your high horse

    dghlsakjg: Upvotes and downvotes do not give any validity to an argument. Sorry it doesn’t make sense to you.

    ^ its okay. you're one of those people who obsesses over what other people think, and live your life that way.

    clipsy: > i mean.. i get it. (point 1) i'd never do it. (point 2) And?

    > i also said, it is the internet and people will do that because famous people are... famous... and if there's an AI video of a famous person that I do like, i will give it a like.

    Essentially: it happens a lot so it must be OK. Lovely morals.

    > if Robin Williams was some guy who worked as a cashier at Trader Joe's his whole life nobody would care

    People don't care about a random murder victim as much as they care about Rob Reiner; murder is still wrong and deplorable.

    > maybe Robin Williams should have never been an actor then he'd be unknown to the masses, like 99% of us on HN

    Whiny bullshit.

    ^ lol

    by moomoo11
  • She has now asked three times, in 2023 about his voice, in 2025 about the videos, and again today. What changed between them is not the technology, it is what she is asking for. The first time it was stop. Now it is have some shame. That is someone who has worked out there is nobody to appeal to, only an audience, and asking an audience for restraint has never scaled. The enforcement falls on the family, personally, every round, because it does not fall on anyone else.
    by mulanroo
  • 4chan and Twitter: "Define shame"
    by the_real_cher
  • The struggle is real:

    2025:

    Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45505626

    2023:

    Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda slams AI for recreating her father’s voice

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37742529

    by ChrisArchitect
  • The irony here is that this article is now a giant invitation to everyone else who just found out about this to pile on and do the exact opposite
    by zergrush
  • I remember being stunned by Mork from Ork. Then watched as the same guy grew into one of the most iconic and loved humans on Earth. Given the amount of brain share that he earned it's kind of inevitable that so many people try to bring him back. I hope his daughter can also feel the love in it.

    But shazbot to anyone who goes rule 34 on him.

    by delichon

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