Fortnite / Epic Games

Fortnite added an AI-powered Darth Vader chatbot NPC using voice lines mimicking James Earl Jones's iconic voice — players quickly found ways to make the AI say things Jones himself never would have agreed to, triggering a SAG-AFTRA unfair labor practice charge with the NLRB (May 2025) against Llama Productions, the Epic Games-owned company behind Fortnite's character work, over using AI to generate the voice instead of bargaining with the union over performer work. Epic's own leadership has said AI's goal internally is to make staff 'more efficient,' even as the company simultaneously sues its OWN former contractors for leaking confidential game secrets — a reminder that the same company building AI tools trained partly on voice/likeness data is also fighting hard to keep its own internal information locked down.

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