It's certainly imperfect, but we'll have to rely on voluntary AI disclosure more and more to make decisions, because image generators probably won't mangle fingers forever. Valve is being typical Valve by leaving it up to the law to decide what's acceptable on Steam, but it is making one direct demand, and I'm happy to see it: developers must disclose generative AI use in games submitted to Steam, and parts of that disclosure will be published on Steam store pages for all to see.Īssuming most developers are upfront (if not for the sake of honesty, then for fear of being found out later) and these disclosures are thorough, I'll be very thankful to avoid the 'is it AI generated or just kinda bad art?' theorizing that now happens so often and skip right to the part where we individually decide whether or not we're OK with a game's use of generative AI. Those are just a few examples of generative AI already being used on Steam, either during the production of a game or as a live feature-there are more, almost definitely including some we don't know about. In 2022, a game called This Girl Does Not Exist released with some now very crude-looking Midjourney portraits.A roguelike that released on Steam in October claims to be the "world's first RPG in which all entities are AI-generated and all game mechanics are AI-directed.".Square Enix released a free "AI tech preview" on Steam last year which slapped AI language processing into a 1983 adventure game (to boos, mainly).Cyan Worlds acknowledged the use of "AI assisted content" in Firmament.Free-to-play shooter The Finals, which released on Steam in December, controversially used AI to generate voice lines.Valve hasn't opened any AI floodgate that wasn't already open: The more prescient observation might be that Steam's new AI policy-which gives the thumbs up to generative AI in games on Steam so long as its use is disclosed and it doesn't break any laws-is really just an acknowledgement that generative AI is already everywhere, including on Steam.
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