'Fortnite' Players Are Already Making AI Darth Vader Swear
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Summary
On Friday, gaming company Epic Games added a feature to its online game Fortnite enabling players to speak with the character Darth Vader.
The AI-generated response from the Disney character quickly went off script, with one clip showing him using highly inappropriate language.
Fortnite users also attempted to get Vader to make offensive statements about Spanish people and queer people, with some claiming the exchange was racially insensitive.
Epic Games said it had pushed a quick fix to prevent such incidents from happening again and that it had added extra safeguards to its conversational AI.
“These safety settings and restrictions have been rigorously tested by a combination of Epic employees and outside experts,” an Epic Games spokesperson said.
The controversies didn’t end there, with Epic also claiming that Apple had blocked its latest Fortnite submission.
