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Valve is reportedly blocking games with AI-generated content from being sold on Steam.As the AI debate rages on, Steam has taken a pretty definitive stance – it will no longer approve games that are submitted with AI-generated assets.A reddit post from industry veteran Simon Carless has revealed that a game he submitted which contained AI images was blocked by Steam.“I tried to release a game about a month ago, with a few assets that were fairly obviously AI-generated,” he revealed. “My plan was to just submit a rougher version of the game, with 2-3 assets/sprites that were admittedly obviously AI generated from the hands, and to improve them prior to actually releasing the game as I wasn’t aware Steam had any issues with AI-generated art.”Instead, he received the following e-mail in response:“While we strive to ship most titles submitted to us, we cannot ship games for which the developer does not have all of the necessary rights.”PSA: Valve has been quietly banning newly submitted Steam games using AI-created art assets – if submitters can't prove they have rights for the assets used to train the algorithms: https://t.co/WhWpJpaFjl pic.twitter.com/5KhzJESYxk— Simon Carless (@simoncarless) June 29, 2023“After reviewing, we have identified intellectual property in [Game Name Here] which appears to belongs to one or more third parties.

Outer Wilds has been spotted by an eagle-eyed fan, causing publisher Annapurna Interactive and developer Mobius Digital to react on Twitter.Game industry professional Simon Carless tweeted about his discovery on April 28, noting that the potential DLC “Echoes Of The Eye” had appeared in the Steam records on Steamdb.Annapurna Interactive, who published Outer Wilds in 2019, retweeted Carless’ tweet with a single eye emoji.