If you're gonna use AI-made stuff in your game, you better tell us, says Steam Developers must disclose all AI-generated art, code, or music used in their games for Steam to review before their titles can be publicly released via the software souk. Devs will be required to fill out an AI disclosure section in the paperwork they must submit to Steam before their titles can be approved. Steam announced the …
It should be a simple matter for them to check each game submitted to their platform. Quite fun actually. I'm sure there are a wealth of gamers who would do it for them for free.
Should a game be found to violate their rules, it can be taken down, and the users blocked from continued play. Steam don't even need to refund.
(Not in the small print? Steam stopped supporting Windows 7 at the end of last year "Steam will stop running on Windows 7 in 0 days" it says now, although the games still load). This potentially means that anyone playing on that platform will lose the lot, or have to pay for updated hardware and software to run 10 or 11.)
No wonder folks are moving to other platforms (I'm not the only one still running W7, I'm sure).
I'm on Win7 as well for my gaming rig. I have seen no difference in my Steam catalog or my ability to play my games, or even purchase new ones.
I fail to see why people would move away from Steam. Yes, they are no longer supporting Win7, rather late in the game I might add. If Borkzilla can stop supporting it, Steam doesn't really have much of a choice left.
In the meantime, I know and understand Steam rules and I accept them. I have yet to see any unfairness from their part.
But you go ahead and move to another platform if that suits you. EA Games, for example ? The platform that terminated my right to play Battlefield 2142 when I complained that my purely online purchase was demanding a CD key that I didn't have ? Oh, and if you think they reimbursed me, I have news for you : they did not.
I find that rather unfair, but you're welcome to the experience.
You dont seem to know quite what you're talking about here. First Steam have stopped supporting Win 7. What that means is no more updates to Steam on a Win 7 machine. Ok that might bring security problems, but considering that Windows no longer supports Windows 7 either, Steam's security holes are probably the least of the worries.
As to Steam checking every game on their platform - perhaps you would like to know that there was 14,534 new games added to Steam last year (according to Steam DB). Considering that some of them have play times running in the 100's of hours or more (for example if you wanted to see EVERYTHING in Baldurs Gate 3, you're looking at probably 300+ hours), how on Earth are you going to check everything?
Checks are run when a game is uploaded to Steam. They look for Malware, things that will damage machines, or other nasties, but for content, mostly they have to go on what the descriptions are, and what players report. Some games are played a bit based on the descriptions and comments from the developers, but that's only a very small minority. You just couldnt do it otherwise...
All AI-generated art, code, or music is copyright infringing.
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