Fortnites AI Voiced Darth Vader Is Causing More Chaos in the Games Industry
"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed".
If you’ve played Fortnite over the past few days, you may have recruited Darth Vader to your team. Pretty cool, huh? Even cooler is that you can actually talk to him, as the game experiments with chat bot technology trained on the late actor James Earl Jones’ voice, with permission from his estate.
It didn’t take long for fans to push the functionality to its limits, forcing the Star Wars antagonist to say all kinds of horrific things. And now, voice actor union SAG-AFTRA has launched an unfair labour practice charge against developer Epic Games’ signature company Llama Productions, regarding the replacement of human actors with AI.
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