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'Fortnite' Players Are Already Making AI Darth Vader Swear


Others have found more subtle ways to fool the AI into giving problematic responses.

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. The AI, which is made with Google Gemini 2.0, is programmed with ElevenLabs' Flash v2.5 to sound like the late James Earl Jones, who voiced the iconic character. When reached for comment by WIRED, an Apple spokesperson disputed Epic’s characterization of the events, but the game is still currently unavailable to iPhone and other iOS users.

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