Google has launched a complicated AI video technology software able to creating Fortnite gameplay clips that look virtually indistinguishable from the true factor.
Veo 3 launched this week and has already raised eyebrows for its dystopian capability to create life-like video clips from easy text-based prompts and embrace realistic-sounding audio.
Different generative AI packages, equivalent to OpenAI’s Sora, have been doing comparable for a while — however the capability for Veo 3 to incorporate lifelike audio actually is a exceptional, if chilling, step ahead.
Veo 3 customers are nonetheless testing out what the software is able to, however inside two days have begun producing Fortnite gameplay with a faux streamer commenting excessive. The standard is sweet sufficient that, whereas scrolling on social media, you’d suppose it was a legimate clip from YouTube or Twitch.
Technically, Veo 3 shouldn’t be infringing on anybody’s copyrighted materials — and it is protected to imagine Fortnite developer Epic Video games didn’t signal this one off. However clearly the AI software has had entry to the tens of millions of hours of Fortnite gameplay posted on-line, and is now capable of reproduce a convincing illustration on command.
One clip, displaying a streamer celebrating as they win a match utilizing solely their pickaxe, was apparently created inside Veo 3 utilizing a text-based immediate of 9 phrases: “Streamer getting a victory royale with simply his pickaxe”.
Uhhh… I do not suppose Veo 3 is meant to be producing Fortnite gameplay pic.twitter.com/bWKruQ5Nox
— Matt Shumer (@mattshumer_) May 21, 2025
In penning this immediate, Veo 3 has not been instructed particularly to create Fortnite gameplay. Nonetheless, it understands from the context what sport the person is referring to.
Veo 3’s skills throw up all types of questions, and much more urgent ones than easy copyright issues. The power to create footage like this undoubtedly aids customers seeking to idiot others with disinformation, and in so doing undermine belief in legit footage.
“I cannot inform if that is actual or not,” reads one reply. “We’re cooked,” reads one other.
“The one manner that is potential is that if Veo 3 was educated on an infinite quantity of Fortnite content material,” a 3rd reply reads. “Wouldn’t be stunned if the whole lot that will get uploaded to YouTube is now being educated on regardless of copyright legal guidelines.”
IGN has requested Epic for remark.
For a greater take a look at what Veo 3 is able to exterior of video video games, this is a clip of the algorithm making a faux information report on an car commerce present that does not exist, with faux interviewees answering faux questions.
Earlier than you ask: sure, the whole lot is AI right here. The video and sound each coming from a single textual content immediate utilizing #Veo3 by @GoogleDeepMind .Whoever is cooking the mannequin, let him cook dinner! Congrats @Totemko and the group for the Google I/O reside stream and the brand new Veo web site! pic.twitter.com/sxZuvFU49s
— László Gaál (@laszlogaal_) May 21, 2025
Microsoft has been taken with creating its personal AI-generated footage of video video games, and just lately unveiled the early outcomes of its Muse program, which it stated it had educated on numerous hours of Xbox shooter Bleeding Edge. Xbox boss Phil Spencer instructed Muse could possibly be used to assist ideate sport ideas sooner or later, and even one way or the other help in sport preservation.
However Muse’s reveal, rapidly adopted by the reveal of extra faux gameplay footage generated by Muse of the traditional shooter Quake 2, has prompted additional debate — and raised questions over whether or not the software would take away work or exchange human creativity from present staff.
Fortnite isn’t any stranger to AI itself, after all. Final week, the sport added the power to speak with Star Wars’ Darth Vader, who will reply utilizing generative AI educated on the voice of the late James Earl Jones. Jones’ voice is formally licensed (and was beforehand used to create dialogue for Disney’s personal Obi Wan Kenobi TV collection) and sanctioned by each the late actor and his household, however the addition nonetheless prompted swift condemnation and an unfair labor observe cost from appearing union SAG-AFTRA.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s Information Editor. You possibly can attain Tom at [email protected] or discover him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social