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Fortnite players can channel their inner dark side as James Earl Jones‘ Darth Vader returns to the game. Players will be able to recruit the Sith Lord and be able to talk to him, he will respond ...
Star Wars fans and gamers can now hear late actor James Earl Jones’ iconic Darth Vader voice in the Fortnite Battle Royale video game. The Walt Disney Company and Epic Games launched a new ...
Fortnite players can speak with Darth Vader through a James Earl Jones-voiced AI. They’ve already managed to get the AI character to swear. ...
James Earl Jones becomes “more machine now than man” as his AI-powered voice debuts with Darth Vader in Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 3: Galactic Battle ...
Beloved actor James Earl Jones died less than a year ago, but in a world with access to (or a flood of) AI generation, his characters don’t have to stay dead. Fortnite announced on its news site ...
D arth Vader's iconic voice, which was performed by the late James Earl Jones, has been added to Fortnite using AI, and fans already found ways to make the chatbot swear. Darth Vader has rejoined ...
When Fortnite players meet Darth Vader in the game’s ongoing Star Wars event, they will be able to speak with the Sith Lord directly, and he’s going to respond with a voice that sounds exactly ...
Fortnite‘s massive Star Wars seasonal event, Fortnite: Galactic Battle, is currently underway. In it, players can get skins for beloved characters like Poe Dameron, Emperor Palpatine, and Darth ...
Gamers do not like conversing with an AI-powered chatbot with Jones’s voice either. “ We deadass having a conversation with James Earl Jones via AI…? Yea you can keep it,” one post on X ...
All that aside, if you think the AI's voice sounds quite close to actual Vader, that's because the late James Earl Jones (who passed away last year) has had his voice re-created by generative AI.
This FAQ seemingly hints that Fortnite has some assumption that James Earl Jones’ AI Darth Vader voice may say something that merits reporting. And we’re not sure we like that very much at all.