Everyone is fighting for the sanctity of creating art, until Darth Vader turns around and shouts “skibidi toilet” before bagging a Victory Royale with Hatsune Miku. Last week saw Epic Games add an AI version of the iconic Star Wars villain to Fortnite, which responds in real time to any and all (or at least, most) vocal queries thrown at him.

Over the weekend, I saw people try to explain to Darth Vader what furries are, teach him how to speak in generic brainrot phrases, and obviously get him to swear and say slurs, despite the restrictions placed on the AI model by Epic Games. He’s not allowed to express romantic or sexual language, engage in hate speech, quote too much Star Wars, and all the usual stuff we’ve seen users get around time and time again with chatbots like this.

It’s been a fun disaster, but also speaks to a worrying future for AI, voice acting, and the use of deceased figures that have been written on the wall for a long time now. We have opened Pandora’s Box and there is no going back.

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