If you don't want Steam games that have AI Generation in them, you might want to check out the new filter on SteamDB. Making it a bit easier to get rid of them from your searches. ICYMI: Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages.
This new filter depends on the AI disclosures that Valve require developers to put on their Steam pages, so it's only as accurate as the developers who actually fill it out accurately.
On any of the lists on SteamDB, you need to open the "Filter by user tags" sidebar section and enter in "AI Content Disclosed" and then either pick to have them or not. Example shot below of the SteamDB Steam Next Fest page filtered to just demos, and no AI content:
Hopefully Valve directly will soon add a proper filter to Steam for this. But until then, the community site SteamDB keeps showing how useful it can be.
Activision also recently (finally) admitted it uses AI for Call of Duty, with the Call of Duty Steam page now having an AI content disclosure that reads "Our team uses generative AI tools to help develop some in game assets". Players have spotted a few places where it was likely used for cosmetics like some loading screens and player calling cards but Activision haven't specified where it's used. If the likes of Activision can't get away from disclosing it on Steam, hopefully Valve will keep ensuring more developers list it properly.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
For example, there are games that have no AI declaration on their Steam page, but have "aicontenttype 1" in the metadata listed on SteamDB. Also some of the games that *do* have an AI declaration, and "aicontenttype 1", are shown in SteamDB's list of demos even when the filter is set to exclude them. The specific case that tipped me off was seeing Windward Horizon's Demo in the list.
Then again, technophobia is real, so more power for being able to customize your searches.
Then again, technophobia is realWell, also ethical standards. They're real too. Just ask all the striking voice artists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%932025_SAG-AFTRA_video_game_strike
Sadly, AI content disclaiming doesn't actually tell you how good or bad the game in question is
I don't want to just filter "bad games" from "good games"; for that purpose there are reviews and curators and various other methods.
I want to filter games that were created by using the planet-cooking plagiarism machine, because I find it objectionable to use said machine. Even if it had really good results (instead of mediocre text and uncanny valley images, both full of inconsistencies) I don't think it would justify either cooking the planet or trying to replace people by appropriating their work from the commons, much less both.
I am not a technophobe; I work in research, creating new technologies with enormous potential benefits. I am excited about several innovations. But I am not stupid enough to think that every new technology is necessarily good and positive. Sometimes people discover a new insulating construction material that seems great, but the world would be better off if we had not adopted asbestos.
Caldathras less than a minute ago
I am not stupid enough to think that every new technology is necessarily good and positive.Much like I've heard the Amish approach new technologies. Each and every new idea is assessed for the impact it will have on their community/society. If the negatives outweigh the positives, they don't adopt it. I can respect that.
I am not a technophobe either. I am all for the appropriate use of technology. I will not support a tool that can be utilized to take jobs away from human beings -- be they programmers, artists, actors, farmers or whatever -- just to increase corporate profits. Unfortunately, too many execs are looking at utilizing LLM this way.
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