If a conservative company like Disney is experimenting with video game AI, other developers will surely follow

Fortnite added the Darth Vader AI with the latest update, but this move has caused a lot of controversy and some legal trouble.

The mobile version of Fortnite was banned from Apple’s and Google’s app stores near the height of its popularity.

Epic Games and Llama Productions are the subject of an unfair labour practice charge from the SAG-AFTRA union.

Not one but two Star Wars AI controversies within a week? First Lucasfilm itself was touting some objectively terrible AI video generation in Star Wars Field Report as the future of VFX. Now Fortnite's being criticised over its AI-voiced Darth Vadar.

The union has now filed an unfair labor practice charge (link to the PDF is on the SAG-AFTRA website) that calls out “ Fortnite ‘s signatory company, Llama Productions” for “ [replacing] the work of human performers with AI technology” without “providing any notice of their intent to do this and without bargaining with us over appropriate terms.”

On top of all the problems, Fortnite is not available to all iOS users who use the search function in the App Store. For some reason, the game can be downloaded through the direct link, yet it doesn’t appear after users search for it. However, this is likely a temporary issue that will soon be fixed by Apple.