Darth Vader’s appearance in ‘Fortnite’ has proved controversial, as the ‘Star Wars’ villain is powered by generative AI, ...

Fortnite's AI-powered Darth Vader represents AI's potential, and also its risks.

AI Darth Vader offers unique combat and voice interaction in Fortnite.Players defeat Vader, then recruit him as an AI squad ...

Fortnite now has an AI Darth Vader chatbot, which is as dire and American a sentence as I want to write in 2025. Players can ...

The wildly popular game recently added Darth Vader with an AI-generated James Earl Jones voice, resulting in racist and ...

SAG-AFTRA has filed a labor complaint against Fortnite;s maker over AI use of James Earl Jones' voice as Darth Vader, raising ...

The union has now filed an unfair labor practice charge (link to the PDF is on the SAG-AFTRA website) that calls out “ ...

James Earl Jones's estate allowed "Fortnite" to use the late actor's voice for its Darth Vader character. Epic Games had to ...

Shortly after Epic Games dropped Darth Vader, in the form of a holographic conversational AI, into Fortnite, players started ...

Darth Vader’s AI is powered by Google Gemini 2.0. Players under 13, or the age of digital consent in their country, will need ...

Epic Says Apple Has Blocked Fortnite's Return to the U.S. App Store — and Now Tim Sweeney Is Tweeting Tim Cook to Complain ...

Perhaps predictably, Fortnite's new AI Darth Vader chatbot is already engaging with players in unexpected ways.