The useful AI warning for Steam script has been turned into a proper browser extension

I didn't know there was a "like" button at the end of the articles. Can I hit it like 5 more times?

I honestly prefer userscripts to "proper" browser extensions, since it's that much easier to check the actual code running on my end, but that's just preference doing the talking.
Still, if you want to the heads-up this provides, it's the tool needed for the job. Too bad you can't exactly add this to the Steam client itself, that would have made it even more useful for those who need it.


Last edited by Essoje on 27 Oct 2025 at 1:21 pm UTC

I don't know what is worse, AI or popups... why not put it neatly in the infobox, like the protondb extension? It could just say AI / no AI and pop more info on click.


Last edited by pb on 27 Oct 2025 at 1:26 pm UTC

I don't know what is worse, AI or popups... why not put it neatly in the infobox, like the protondb extension? It could just say AI / no AI and pop more info on click.

Looks like we have a competitor here. The license of the addon is MIT, you can start from that source code and build your version. You know... linux... open source... stuff like that .

Only thing to change would be to replace the "A"'s in the "AI"'s in that text with "F"'s.

The tech is not A-worthy, it is a big F. Pun intended.


Last edited by emphy on 27 Oct 2025 at 3:25 pm UTC

I would have still preferred to see it implemented in Augmented Steam, but this is good!

Nice! Unfortunately I seldom use the store from the browser, most of the time I use the desktop or phone apps.

This reminds me of how you can show people forged art, like the Mona Lisa, and 99.9999% of people can't tell it isn't original, but when they find out it is "fake" they no longer like it.

It would be interesting to do a study where you have people that are anti-AI play games with various degrees of AI (or none) and have them try to guess what was AI.

If AI is good enough that you can't tell and need a disclosure, who cares? I suppose for some there is a "moral" component, but as I've said before the vast majority simply wants a good product - morality never even enters the chat.

I would definitely use something like this if I didn't exclusively use the Steam application itself to browse the store. Unrelated note - anyone else remember when Steam had skin support? I miss that :(

I don't know what is worse, AI or popups... why not put it neatly in the infobox, like the protondb extension? It could just say AI / no AI and pop more info on click.

I think this extension (formerly userscript) is for people that wants the details of the section to be immediately visible, beyond a "yes/no" flag.

AI tools, AI generation, etc. is a lot of things, and as unpopular as it might sound, I can perfectly see some pretty acceptable usages. Not in generating assets for production, but the whole gradient of helpers that might or might not be based on LLM or similar technologies and might or might not have to fall in line with the AI disclaimer on the store page makes it very complex to produce a simple "AI: yes/no" block.

This also varies with how people declare things; some go very far in talking about the use of AI gen tools at various preliminary stage of the process, so much that not much of it is left. Other "forget" to declare that their whole game is AI slop wrapped in a cardboard box.

In respect to that, shortening that section to a smaller box with a "details" button sounds like a recipe for people going all pitchfork in situations that won't warrant it, and vice versa, an extension actively displaying "no AI" on the interface just because of the lack of details would not always be very truthful.