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The problem is for me, I'm so busy that it's just easy to miss. The AI notice on Steam page is buried is small writing at the bottom of a store page. Steam itself has no filters for it currently either, although the community site SteamDB does and the list is a lot bigger than I expected. 12,284 games on Steam have an AI disclosure according to SteamDB at time of writing. I was going to say "that's a crazy number!", but it's not really is it? I'm sure many GamingOnLinux readers fully expected a lot of developers to end up pushing out slop with AI generation.
Thankfully, an open source browser userscript was pointed out to me on Bluesky (thanks!) which really makes it impossible to miss. It will work on any operating system with pretty much all major browsers. With that installed, when going to a Steam page that has an AI disclosure, you get this appear before you're able to actually do anything:
I love how simple and most importantly how effective it is. The main thing is that doesn't stop you taking a look, it just makes sure you're fully aware of the AI gen use. Hopefully never again will I completely waste my time playing through a game, writing it up and then suddenly remembering - "Oh yeah, I have to check if they stuck AI generation in it".
I'm sure some readers might find my stance on AI generation a bit harsh perhaps, but when there's tens of thousands of games releasing every year — my time (and yours!) is a premium currency. Why would I want to spend my time with a game full of AI generation, when I could play one that had real actual people craft the work. I can just skip over a game with it for a different game without it. Some of the AI use just seems completely daft as well, one I saw earlier noted how it was used for "Icons + Artists Paintover for 5 icons, out of 100s of artist icons" (Kingdoms Reborn) and in that case I think like…why was it even needed at all?
Using this browser userscript, and remembering to check SteamDB, it's a genuine surprise to see just how many titles have now added an AI disclosure. To my surprise even games like My Summer Car, The Outlast Trials and Siralim Ultimate have the notice.
Hopefully you find it helpful. With tools like the recent EdenSpark announcement, we're going to see more AI games.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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The trouble is, they're conflicted. On the one side is copyright and their ability to squeeze all the money out of intellectual property forever.
On the other, they might get to use the technology to replace all the artists, writers, actors, etc. with free robot slaves. Or worse, someone else might get robot slaves first.
It's a tough call.
ah, the old shall i be evil or even more evil thought process.
Last edited by Lofty on 22 Oct 2025 at 12:26 am UTC
TheRiddick 9 hours ago
I guess if it was used for texture creation it can also be quite good.
People need to remember that games have been doing procedural generation for a long time before this AI craze and it is very similar sort of thing.
Wish we could identify AI slop more accurately rather then just labelling everything that uses AI in some way somewhere being bad, because it won't be long before all games made use it in some form!
Last edited by TheRiddick on 21 Oct 2025 at 10:42 pm UTC
I'm not opposed of AI gen being used for voice acting (when done right and not stealing VA)
define stealing. Outright plagiarism is perhaps easy to spot but hard to prove let alone raise an expensive legal challenge.But taking a VA and modifying it is even more deceptive. The voice isn't just an audio signature , it's the soul & passion of the artist.
back to first point .. this is how i see what's happening.
They know there stealing
We know there stealing
They know we know there stealing
But what is a poorly paid struggling artist going to do against an army of billionaire backed lawyers ?
as @Nezchan put it there probably vacillating between litigating for billions themselves or working out how many billions they can save by wiping out large portions of 'useless' humanity using Ai
Last edited by Lofty on 22 Oct 2025 at 7:54 am UTC
In The Finals they use it for the voice of the match commentators with mixed results... And most of the time you are too focused or talking to your team mates to pay attention to them.
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