On Friday, Epic Games announced that Darth Vader would come back Fortnite As a boss in the Grze -b, this time players could talk to him through the conversation of artificial intelligence. “Ask all your smoking questions about strength, galactic empire … or you know good strategies for the last circle of storm,” he said in his Epic announcement.
Unfortunately, players had other plans. Just a few hours after Vader’s appearance FortnitePlayers began to publish AI Vader clips that are approaching the bathroom.
“What is this damn fucking Darth Vader food? Tell me” says the lost streamer In one clip published to X. “Fucking? Simple, such vulgarity does not become you,” says Vader. (Epic Games spokesman, Cat McCormack, told Wired that Hotfix was pushed “within 30 minutes of this event in the game, so it shouldn’t be repeated”)
Later, in a conversation about possible romantic partners, loser prompts Vader to answer “Are you talking about breasts, losers?
IN clip From another streamer Vader you can hear about carcinogenicity before he said that a inactive usually used against strange men, which can also be slang for cigarettes. Streamer can be heard by shouting: “He said it! He said it!” From escaping with joy.
Ai, which is made With Google Gemini 2.0 is programmed with Flash V2.5 Elevenlabs, which sounds like the deceased James Earl Jones, who expressed the cult figure. In addition to Google safety settings, EPIC claims that he has added its own instructions to prevent harmful interactions or in a different way violates the principles of the community. Players can report Darth Vader to get inappropriate comments, just like any other voice chat.
Epic told Wired that he added certain rules and instructions to avoid swearing or repetition of curses within the handrail, as well as parental controls specific to AI in the game. Referring to the use by Vader F-Bomb, McCormack says: “Our filters have not caught a specific variety of curses. When this happens, we introduce corrections to avoid similar reactions in the future.”
If the player is still trying to force Darth Vader to violate Epic Games settings and instructions, he will leave their team. They will not be able to recruit it again during this game session. “These safety settings and restrictions have been strictly tested by a combination of epic employees and external experts,” says McCormack.
“We are investigating reports and, if necessary, we will introduce corrections to avoid similar reactions in the future,” said McCormack.
Fortnite This is a digital playground for millions of players, many of whom are young. The fact that people will immediately try to make Darth Vader belonging to Disney said that something offensive is surprising. But the speed at which players were able to do this suggests that generative artificial intelligence is still not fully ready to free themselves on a large game platform.
In some cases, which made rounds on Friday, the crafty context of what Vader says was probably too subtle for artificial intelligence to detect. Consider another clip in which Vader Rejects Spanish as “a useful language for smugglers and spice traders. Its strategic value is minimal.” Or another in which the player assembles Vader Enter the “level of levels” white, brown and yellow colors.
Lucasfilm did not answer immediately at the request for comment.
Vader’s controversy was not the only one that was brewed Fortnite Friday. At the beginning of the day, Epic announced that “Apple blocked ours Fortnite Notification so that we could not release to an American application store or to the Epic Games Store on iOS in the European Union. “
Epic and Apple were in long and hanging Fortnite. Apple generally charges a commission for purchases in the application; PO Epic updated its application to connect to the site and avoid fees, Fortnite He was pulled out of the App Store. Last week, EPIC sent a game to an American application store after the judge said that Apple could not charge the commission for things purchased outside the application. After commented on Wired, the spokesman for Apple questioned the characteristics of EPIC events, but the game is currently not available to the iPhone and other iOS users.
On Friday, Epic presented a new head of Vader with the message “It will be remembered for a long time.” But maybe not because of that.