Valve doesn't want to "discourage" AI content in games, but will act in line with copyright law

After a developer's game was rejected for using AI-generated art, Valve has clarified its stance on whether it will allow it on the platform. Last month, a developer shared a post in the aigamedev subreddit that their game had been rejected from appearing on Steam by Valve, admitting that some of the art was "obviously AI generated." Valve specifically noted the use of AI-generated art, which it couldn't determine if the developer had rights to or not, as the main reason behind the opportunity behind the rejection, offering one opportunity to remove any art the dev didn't have the rights to. The developer simply changed the art by hand, but seemingly not completely, and the game was again rejected. This left some questions over Valve's stance on AI-generated content in games, but in a statement to Eurogamer, the company has offered an amount of clarification. Valve apparently shared that it is continuing to learn about AI, and how it can be used in development, as well as how it will factor into the games it allows on Steam. "Our priority, as always, is to try to ship as many of the titles we receive as we can," Valve said, discussing how AI may make this process harder, as it isn't always clear when devs have the "sufficient rights in using AI to create assets, including images, text, and music." Read more