If you saw the news last week about Fortnite adding a chattable Darth Vader with his AI take on the late James Earl Jones Vader voice, then you might have tucked that away in your brain in a file marked haha oh man that’s gonna go over like an Alliance tat at ISB HQ. Or, uh, maybe that was just me. In any case, the inevitable fiasco has now officially come to pass.

Now, to be clear, the problem here is not that the AI was added without permission. In his lifetime, Jones explicitly signed the rights for his AI voice to Lucasfilm, which has legally licensed it to Epic Games. But in using Jones’ AI voice, Epic has run afoul of SAG-AFTRA, the 160,000-person-strong voice actor union that has been on strike while negotiating for its role in the games industry.

“Fortnite’s signatory company, Llama Productions, chose to replace the work of human performers with A.I. technology,” SAG-AFTRA wrote last night. “Unfortunately, they did so without providing any notice of their intent to do this and without bargaining with us over appropriate terms. As such, we have filed an unfair labor practice charge with the NLRB against Llama Productions.” Here’s the specific complaint from the filing against Epic Games-owned Llama Productions:

“Within the past six months, the Employer, by its agents and representatives, failed and refused to bargain in good faith with the union by making unilateral changes to terms and conditions of employment, without providing notice to the union or the opportunity to bargain, by utilizing AI-generated voices to replace bargaining unit work on the Interactive Program Fortnite.”

Section 8 is explicitly the unfair labor practices section of the NLRA that forbids interference, discrimination, refusal to bargain, and so forth. It’s unlikely this filing will go far as the current U.S. administration has spent its first months in office gutting labor agencies like the NLRB.

The second problem is that players and streamers quickly found ways to get Vader’s AI voice in game to curse and spit slurs because of course they did. Epic Games tweeted that it hotfixed at least some of these issues out of the game over the weekend, but it’s unclear why the company wasn’t prepared for this problem, as it’s opened the door for similar toxicity problems in the past and should know better.

Either way, something tells us that this is not exactly what Jones, his estate, or Lucasfilm had in mind when signing away his legacy.