You can’t libel the dead. But that doesn’t mean you should deepfake them

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You can’t libel the dead. But that doesn’t mean you should deepfake them

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Zelda Williams, daughter of the late actor Robin Williams, has a poignant message for her father’s fans.
“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand. I don’t and I won’t,” she wrote in a post on her Instagram story on Monday. “If…

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