On Thursday, numerous shops reported on a June Reddit post from person potterharry97 saying that Steam would now not be publishing video games with AI-generated content material. Later within the month, one other sport dev penned a similar post. Valve says that’s not fairly proper.
In an announcement emailed to The Verge, Valve PR consultant Kaci Boyle mentioned the corporate’s objective is “to not discourage using [AI] on Steam; as an alternative, we’re working by way of the right way to combine it into our already-existing assessment insurance policies.” She went on to say that the corporate’s present assessment course of takes under consideration present copyright legislation, and that “whereas builders can use these AI applied sciences of their work… they cannot infringe on current copyrights.”
Boyle added that Steam will refund app-submission credit for any builders whose video games had been rejected over AI copyright points as the corporate refines its assessment course of. It made the identical provide to potterharry97.
Valve’s developer submission rules disallow “content material you don’t personal or have enough rights to.” Potterharry97 included the rejection message of their put up, which mentioned their sport “incorporates artwork belongings generated by synthetic intelligence that seems to be counting on copyrighted materials owned by third events.”
