On Thursday, varied retailers reported on a June Reddit publish from person potterharry97 saying that Steam would not be publishing video games with AI-generated content material. Later within the month, one other recreation dev penned an identical publish. Valve says that’s not fairly proper.
In a press release emailed to The Verge, Valve PR consultant Kaci Boyle mentioned the corporate’s aim is “to not discourage the usage of [AI] on Steam; as a substitute, we’re working by methods to combine it into our already-existing assessment insurance policies.” She went on to say that the corporate’s present assessment course of takes into consideration present copyright regulation, and that “whereas builders can use these AI applied sciences of their work… they can’t infringe on current copyrights.”
Boyle added that Steam will refund app-submission credit for any builders whose video games have 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 guidelines disallow “content material you don’t personal or have sufficient rights to.” Potterharry97 included the rejection message of their publish, which mentioned their recreation “comprises artwork belongings generated by synthetic intelligence that seems to be counting on copyrighted materials owned by third events.”
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