Today’s Fortnite update brought something unexpected to the game’s Star Wars season. Specifically, players can now engage with a Darth Vader AI Chatbot. Players can talk to Darth Vader during ...

Late last week, Fortnite got a Darth Vader chatbot you can squad up with and have stilted AI-powered conversations that use James Earl Jones' actual voice. It's not just said a bunch of stuff it ...

This was a bad look, given Fortnite’s young user base, but there were also plenty of wholesome, genuinely funny moments that emerged from the AI-generated chaos. Once the novelty wore off and ...

players are seeing what else they can get the former Jedi Knight to say. One of the most prominent and widespread examples of exploiting AI’s unintelligence comes from popular Fortnite streamer ...

On Friday, Epic Games announced Darth Vader would be returning to Fortnite as an in-game boss—but this time, players would be able to chat with him through conversational AI. “Ask him all your ...

We don’t just mean text dialogue or added voice lines, but you can actually talk to him using in-game AI. Fortnite has collaborated with ElevenLabs to bring their Flash v2.5 model to the battle ...

Darth Vader is now a character on "Fortnite," using an AI version of James Earl Jones' voice. Jones's family said they allowed AI to use his voice because he wanted "all ages" to experience Darth ...

On Monday, SAG-AFTRA filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board against Epic subsidiary Llama Productions for implementing an AI-generated Darth Vader voice in ...

Fortnite maker Epic Games has weighed in on the increasing use of AI-generated thumbnail images within the game by third-party creators for their own mini-games. As well as its popular battle ...

The strike started in 2024. One of the big ones is more protection against AI copies, like Darth Vader in Fortnite. SAG-AFTRA, the massive actors and media union with over 160,000 members ...

Instead, it has to do with SAG-AFTRA’s prescribed procedure on the use of AI voices. In a post last week on Fortnite’s website announcing that players can now “strategize with the ultimate ...

Head into Fortnite's ever-growing library of user-generated game modes and you'll be inundated with all kinds of AI-generated thumbnails vying for your attention. That won't be changing anytime ...