Maybe it has to do with people losing their minds at the mention of it? Spend however long on a game, for some random to come out the woodwork and attempt to invalidate everything because you decided to disclose.
An AI filter is in the interest of both sides here because the people who would "lose their minds" over it can just avoid it with the press of a button. And if you want to sell to everyone, then make a product everyone wants.
It’s really to the interest of nobody, because obviously there’s an incentive to be dishonest.
It’s also not particularly helpful, right? Because if I use an LLM to debug a crash report, then that’s the same category as creating a slop game.
So what you would do, realistically, is use the AI to write code, debug, you know typical software development stuff and then just… lie. Your game is closed-source anyway, so nobody is reading the code.
There’s levels to this. AI generated slop assets is one thing. AI-assisted coding describes every software project everywhere in the world.
> Because if I use an LLM to debug a crash report, then that’s the same category as creating a slop game
Steam has clear guidelines on what requires an AI disclosure, and all that people are asking for is that they can filter based on this. It's a tiny change.
> AI-assisted coding describes every software project everywhere in the world
That is simply not true.
> and then just… lie
I'm not a lawyer, but lying about something that influences the customer's purchase decision sounds a bit like fraud and not something I would advise to "just" do. If using AI is so normal then why lie about it?
No, it is. You can ask any software developer working at any company right now if they use AI in their workflow somewhere in the company, either them or other developers. They will say "yes". The only people who think LLMs aren't typically used in software are not software developers. Which I get it, if you don't know then you don't know. So ask. It's not just one or two companies, it's also not 90%. It's 99.99%, I would say 100% but I can't say for sure.
> not something I would advise to "just" do.
Not something I would advise either, but people are going to do it. The difference is indistinguishable and you can't verify it anyway because you typically can't access the source code. So, of course people will lie.
Yeah why would people care about a technology they are already deeply skeptical about and have majority beliefs that said technology will harm humanity and not help it.
God forbid consumers exercise their rights in the matter.
