{"id":62681,"date":"2026-10-13T19:53:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fortnite-maker-epic-games-confirms-huge-pivot-towards-using-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T19:53:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:53:05","slug":"fortnite-maker-epic-games-confirms-huge-pivot-towards-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/fortnite-maker-epic-games-confirms-huge-pivot-towards-using-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite-maker Epic Games confirms ‘huge pivot’ towards using AI"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The announcement brings a fresh focus to the long-running debate around the role of AI in the creative and arts sector<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lisha Howen is a full-time game designer and says she “isn’t completely against AI”, but disagrees with it being used to fully generate artwork and graphics.<\/p>\n

“I have friends who are game developers that use AI to aid them with writing code,” says the 23-year-old, who doesn’t work for Epic.<\/p>\n

“And I have artists who don’t use AI at all because artists, especially in the game industry, hate it because it’s taking away their jobs.<\/p>\n

“You can tell when something’s been generated by AI, it looks terrible, it’s cheap, and it’s making people lose their jobs and lose their income.”<\/p>\n

In 2025, actor union Sag-Aftra filed a complaint over the use of AI<\/a> to recreate the voice of Star Wars villain Darth Vader in Fortnite.<\/p>\n

But Howen, who is also a Fortnite live-streamer, doesn’t think that people will be turned off from playing Epic’s flagship game.<\/p>\n

She explains that while there is a “vocal minority” who play Fortnite, the core player base “don’t really care about the external politics of it all”.<\/p>\n

“They’ll just keep playing like nothing’s changed.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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