James Earl Jones's estate allowed "Fortnite" to use the late actor's voice for its Darth Vader character. Epic Games had to issue a fix after it started cursing.

It didn't take long after Epic Games unleashed famous Star Wars Sith lord Darth Vader into the game Fortnite -- complete with the AI-enabled voice of late actor James Earl Jones for conversations with players -- for Vader to drop the F-bomb.

Fortnite is a digital playground for millions of players, many of them young. That people would immediately try to get the Disney-owned Darth Vader to say something offensive is unsurprising. But the speed at which players were able to do so suggests that generative AI still isn’t fully ready to be unleashed on a major game platform.