Valve will refuse to use AI to generate games with unknown copyright content on the Steam.
CTOnews.com, June 29 / PRNewswire-FirstCall-Asianet /-- it is reported that Valve has begun to ban games on Steam from using AI-generated content unless developers can prove that they own all the IP intellectual property used to train AI to generate data sets for these resources.
Game developer r / aigamedev posted on Reddit that they had submitted a game to Steam that contained content that was "clearly generated by AI" and that they planned to manually improve it in subsequent versions.
In response, they were told that if they could not prove to Valve that they had all the necessary rights, the game would not be approved.
"after review, we have determined that the intellectual property rights in [game names] appear to belong to one or more third parties, in particular, [game names] contain art resources generated by artificial intelligence, which seem to depend on third parties' ownership of copyrighted materials," Valve said.
"since the legal ownership of such AI-generated art is not clear, we cannot publish games that contain these AI-generated resources unless you can confirm that you have all the intellectual property rights in the dataset used to train AI."
Valve says it will give developers a chance to delete all their illegal content before resubmitting it.
The developer said that they had made improvements on this issue and manually improved the content, so there was no longer any obvious trace of "artificial intelligence", but was rejected again after resubmitting the game.
"We cannot release games for which developers lack IP ownership," Valve said. "at this time, we refuse to release your game because it is not clear whether the underlying artificial intelligence technology used to create these resources has sufficient training data rights."
Steam game developers said they were confused by Valve's decision to reject its games, especially given that there are already some games on the PC market that clearly use AI content, such as "this girl doesn't exist".
CTOnews.com inquiries learned that the game, which was released by Cute Pen Games in September last year, called it "the first of its kind" because it relies entirely on artificial intelligence.
"everything you see here, including art, stories, characters and even voiceover, is generated by machine learning artificial intelligence," the official wrote in the description.
"it seems that Valve has not really developed a standard method for generating games with artificial intelligence, and I have seen several games that even explicitly mention the use of artificial intelligence," the developer said.
"but at least for now, they seem to be very cautious and reluctant to publish AI-generated content, so I think other developers here should be wary of this."
