Fortnite is getting a bunch of AI-powered ‘personas’

《堡垒之夜》（Fortnite）即将迎来一批 AI 驱动的“角色”

Get ready for more AI characters in Fortnite. Developer Epic Games is going to let Fortnite creators publish experiences featuring characters with AI-powered voices starting on July 30th, and ahead of that launch, it’s created 36 characters with “consistent voices and personas” that creators can use as NPCs. The characters include Fortnite staples like Agent Jonesy, Peely (the banana), Fishstick (a walking fish), and Cuddle Team Leader (who wears a pink bear mascot head).

准备好迎接《堡垒之夜》中更多的 AI 角色吧。开发商 Epic Games 将从 7 月 30 日起，允许《堡垒之夜》的创作者发布包含 AI 语音角色的游戏体验。在正式发布之前，Epic 已经创建了 36 个拥有“一致语音和个性”的角色，供创作者作为 NPC 使用。这些角色包括《堡垒之夜》中的经典人物，如琼斯探员（Agent Jonesy）、香蕉人（Peely）、鱼人（Fishstick）以及拥抱小队队长（Cuddle Team Leader，戴着粉色熊头套）。

Epic tested the waters of AI characters with last year’s Darth Vader NPC that was powered by James Earl Jones’ voice — a collaboration that Jones’ estate signed off on. Even though players quickly got Vader to swear, something Epic fixed quickly, the company announced shortly after debuting Vader that Fortnite creators would be able to make AI-powered characters of their own.

Epic 去年通过由詹姆斯·厄尔·琼斯（James Earl Jones）配音的达斯·维达（Darth Vader）NPC 试水了 AI 角色——这是一项获得了琼斯遗产管理方授权的合作。尽管玩家很快就让维达说出了脏话（Epic 随后迅速修复了这一问题），但在维达亮相后不久，该公司就宣布《堡垒之夜》的创作者将能够制作属于自己的 AI 驱动角色。

The voices for these new personas rely on “performances captured from independent professional actors specifically for use in developer-made islands,” Epic says. “The actors agreed to have their performances used to develop voice models that create the spoken responses for these LLM-powered Fortnite characters.”

Epic 表示，这些新角色的语音依赖于“从独立专业演员那里专门为开发者自制岛屿所捕捉的表演”。“演员们同意将他们的表演用于开发语音模型，从而为这些由大语言模型（LLM）驱动的《堡垒之夜》角色生成口语回复。”

Down the line, it sounds like Epic wants to make characters featuring voices from the well-known actors that have appeared in the Fortnite universe, but it will have to secure the right approvals to do so. “Our next step is to work with the relevant guilds and character voice actors who have previously worked on Fortnite Battle Royale to explore opportunities to make their original voices available across the Fortnite ecosystem,” the company says.

展望未来，Epic 似乎希望让那些曾在《堡垒之夜》宇宙中出现过的知名演员为角色配音，但这需要获得相应的批准。该公司表示：“我们的下一步是与相关工会以及此前曾参与《堡垒之夜：空降行动》（Fortnite Battle Royale）配音的演员合作，探索将他们的原始声音引入整个《堡垒之夜》生态系统的机会。”

Epic started letting creators test their own AI characters earlier this year, but it laid out a few ground rules to try and keep them from becoming problematic.

Epic 在今年早些时候就开始允许创作者测试他们自己的 AI 角色，但同时也制定了一些基本规则，以防止这些角色引发问题。