Valve Bans AI Game From Steam
Valve has reportedly begun banning Steam games with AI-generated art unless the developers can prove they have rights to the intellectual property used in the resource kit that trained the AI to create the art.
Earlier in June, users started complaining on Reddit that Steam was not publishing AI-generated games. Valve public relations representative Casey Boyle, in an official appeal to The Verge, said that this is not entirely true.
The company’s goal is “not to discourage the use of AI on Steam; instead, we are working on how to integrate it into our already existing content review rules.
Valve’s policies prohibit the use in development of “content that you do not own or for which you do not have the appropriate rights.”
It is highly likely that the programmers who were denied placement included in their games “art assets created by artificial intelligence that appear to rely on copyrighted material owned by third parties.”
Boyle added that Steam will refund application submissions to all developers whose games have been rejected due to copyright issues.
