Artificial intelligence has sparked various debates in different sectors of the entertainment industry, and of course, video games have not been exempt from this. Now Valve has joined the conversation by apparently blocking games generated by artificial intelligence on Steam.
Originally, Valve had open doors for games developed with artificial intelligence tools. However, it seems that their policies have recently changed, or at least that's what some developers claim.
On Reddit, different developers of games made with artificial intelligence revealed that they received a rejection letter from Valve. In it, they are notified that their game cannot be distributed on Steam because it contains content owned by third parties and was created with artificial intelligence.
"After review, we have identified intellectual property in [Insert game name here] that appears to belong to one or more third parties. Specifically, [Insert game name here] contains graphical material generated by artificial intelligence that appears to be based on copyrighted material owned by third parties," states the rejection letter sent by Valve.
It is important to clarify that Steam does not prohibit developers from using artificial intelligence. With that said, developers who utilize these tools have to ensure that they own all the material used to train the artificial intelligence. This is to prevent the AI from being used to exploit the work of others.
"Since the legal ownership of such AI-generated art is not clear, we cannot publish your game while it contains these AI-generated elements unless you can positively confirm that you own the rights to all the intellectual property used in the dataset that trained the AI to create the elements of your game," Valve stated.
It is worth mentioning that the user who shared the letter is not the only one affected. Other users have reported receiving a similar message after uploading their game made with artificial intelligence to Steam.
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