Fortnite’s AI Darth Vader Is Unfortunately Very Funny

The internet is currently littered with hundreds of clips of Fortnite players talking to Darth Vader via voice chat, who is no longer a bot saying a few canned lines, but a Google Gemini-powered AI character that can respond to player queries in real time.

There are many, many ethics conversations to be had about this. In this instance, Fortnite is using AI to clone and repurpose a dead actor’s voice, James Earle Jones, to make this feature. However, Jones signed his voice…