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Darth Vader character in Fortnite deepfake (May 2025)

Fortnite used AI to recreate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice using Google’s Gemini 2.0 and ElevenLabs’ Flash v2.5 models. Players exploited the AI to make Vader say inappropriate words, but Epic Games patched the…

Incident date
May 2025
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Darth Vader character in Fortnite
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read

Fortnite used AI to recreate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice using Google’s Gemini 2.0 and ElevenLabs’ Flash v2.5 models. Players exploited the AI to make Vader say inappropriate words, but Epic Games patched the AI to prevent swearing.

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