Valve is banning games that use AI for art

[John Elden Ring]

A new report from a creator using AI to help develop their game has revealed that Valve has started to crackdown on users intending to publish games that have AI-generated content in them.

Redditor u/potterharry97, has shared the message that they have received from the Steam team, and it has insisted that they have only one chance to remedy the inclusion of AI works.

After reviewing, we have identified intellectual property in [Game Name Here] which appears to belongs to one or more third parties. In particular, [Game Name Here] contains art assets generated by artificial intelligence that appears to be relying on copyrighted material owned by third parties.

As the legal ownership of such AI-generated art is unclear, we cannot ship your game while it contains these AI-generated assets, unless you can affirmatively confirm that you own the rights to all of the IP used in the data set that trained the AI to create the assets in your game.

Though the creator went through the game by hand and made an attempt to remedy the situation, their re-application was formally denied a week later.

"App credits are usually non-refundable, but we'd like to make an exception here and offer you a refund," says the response from Steam. "Please confirm and we'll proceed."

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