Steam is reportedly "not willing to publish" games with AI assets
Valve has been «quietly banning» Steam games that include AI-generated assets.
According to an anonymous developer on Reddit, Steam owner Valve is «not willing» to accept games from developers who can't prove they own the rights to the original art or text assets used to train the AI algorithms.
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/5KhzJESYxkJune 29, 2023
«I tried to release a game about a month ago, with a few assets that were fairly obviously AI-generated,» the poster explained. «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. I received this message.»
The poster then appended an email reportedly sent from Steam.
«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,» Valve allegedly said (thanks, PC Gamer). «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
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