{"id":3228,"date":"2026-07-17T01:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/fortnite-is-getting-a-bunch-of-ai-powered-personas\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T01:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:30:35","slug":"fortnite-is-getting-a-bunch-of-ai-powered-personas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/fortnite-is-getting-a-bunch-of-ai-powered-personas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite is getting a bunch of AI-powered \u2018personas\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/uefn-conversations-blog-header-opt-02.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get ready for more AI characters in <em>Fortnite<\/em>. Developer Epic Games is going to let <em>Fortnite<\/em> creators publish experiences featuring characters with AI-powered voices starting on July 30th, and ahead of that launch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortnite.com\/news\/publish-islands-with-llm-conversations-starting-july-30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it&rsquo;s created<\/a> 36 characters with \u00ab\u00a0consistent voices and personas\u00a0\u00bb that creators can use as NPCs. The characters include <em>Fortnite<\/em> staples like Agent Jonesy, Peely (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/5\/10\/22429267\/epic-v-apple-fortnite-app-store-trial-peely-day-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the banana<\/a>), Fishstick (a walking fish), and Cuddle Team Leader (who wears a pink bear mascot head).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Epic tested the waters of AI characters with last year&rsquo;s Darth Vader NPC that was powered by James Earl Jones&rsquo; voice &#8211; a collaboration that Jones&rsquo; estate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortnite.com\/news\/this-will-be-a-day-long-remembered-speak-with-darth-vader-in-fortnite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed off on<\/a>. Ev \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/966815\/epic-games-fortnite-ai-powered-personas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for more AI characters in Fortnite. Developer Epic Games is going to let Fortnite creators publish experiences featuring [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}