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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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And they were surprised with that connection.
That blew my mind, they never thought about what it is they are presenting, and their job is to.
Are you really going to reject good games just because they dared to use AI in some irrelevant corner? You're in for a rough time as its use becomes the norm.
Liam Dawe 11 hours ago
So yes, I really am going to reject various games due to it. If it's some "irrelevant corner", it's even stupider that they used AI gen. I believe I'll be just fine.
Are you really going to reject good games just because they dared to use AI in some irrelevant corner?
Yes.
I do not want to drink wine that only has a little sewage in it.
Arehandoro 10 hours ago
I take heart from the lead at Revolution Software being candid about being bullish on AI as a means to keep the price down on remastering Broken Sword, and then being equally candid on how it hadn't been cheaper, and hadn't been very good, and they weren't going to do it again having tried it. Lots of companies in lots of industries are dabbling with AI because it's being hyped at them; they won't necessarily know that AI slop isn't good unless they try it.
To be fair, he said they wouldn't use it again on rescaling the backgrounds and character sprites, but not on other things like sound/voice.
Last edited by Arehandoro on 21 Oct 2025 at 12:52 pm UTC
Arehandoro 10 hours ago
R Daneel Olivaw 10 hours ago
Liam Dawe 9 hours ago
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/3862463747997849619 [External Link]
My biggest surprise is that so many game devs choose to self-report rather than keep it hush-hush to avoid turning principled potential buyers away.
How do we know they are...?
I mean, all or at least most of them?
My biggest surprise is that so many game devs choose to self-report rather than keep it hush-hush to avoid turning principled potential buyers away. Does Steam penalize developers that don’t disclaim it?
Even if they ignore the link that lilovent posted, they risk absolutely insane backlash if they use it and are caught doing so by gamers, let alone Valve. Not sure what Valve's response would be, but the gamer response is brutal.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1601570/discussions/0/604160267118483770/ [External Link]
And that was a game that only used it on placeholders in EA! They subsequently removed the AI-gen placeholders and recovered some semblence of respectability, but only after been absolutely dragged twice - once for using AI, and then again for their shitty "it was only in placeholders" response.
Even if they ignore the link that lilovent posted, they risk absolutely insane backlash if they use it and are caught doing so by gamers, let alone Valve. Not sure what Valve's response would be, but the gamer response is brutal.On high-profile games, sure, but I don't think it would bother serial shovelware makers if a few of their games got review bombed. They're already making trash as it is. As such, if it had been optional, I would have been surprised that so many chose to do it.
Ai is hoovering up the entire digital works of human kind & being used by LLM to produce mostly slop. Why not request the learned data sets and sift through it to see if the machines are using copyrighted content ? It's computers .. there is an audit trail by the nature of computers.
your average person can't even download a 20+ year old video game ROM for an ancient console without fear of repercussions or share footage of a game being emulated without receiving a DMCA . What happened to those aggressive litigators ? Did they give up, Do they not understand their content is being used to train models too.
you would think lawyers should be making some serious BANK right now..
Last edited by Lofty on 21 Oct 2025 at 10:45 pm UTC
What i don't understand is where the lawyers at ?
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.
BladePupper 3 hours ago
Are you really going to reject good games just because they dared to use AI in some irrelevant corner? You're in for a rough time as its use becomes the norm.
I absolutely will. If they use that garbage on something, I will just skip it. I can basically play any game up to the PS2 emulated on a PC (many PS3 Xbox 360 games too) not including the countless games already ported that run natively or though proton that don't use the buzzletters at all. I can always play something else because there will always be a market for games without AI trash in it.
Took me four guesses on the Steam front page to get a game with that warning.
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