Valve raises concerns about legality of AI in game development
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Valve has expressed hesitation about allowing games with AI assets onto the Steam store. Several game developers recently came forward saying their games were rejected by Valve for this reason, and today Valve released a statement expressing reservations about allowing such games given the current state of AI and copyright law.
A Valve spokesperson said in a statement published to GamesIndustry.biz: “The introduction of AI can sometimes make it harder to show a developer has sufficient rights in using AI to create assets, including images, text, and music. In particular, there is some legal uncertainty relating to data used to train AI models. It is the developer’s responsibility to make sure they have the appropriate rights to ship their game.”
Last month, a developer posted their rejection letter from Valve on the AIGameDev subreddit. The letter read, “After reviewing, we have identified intellectual property in [game] which appears to belongs to one or more third parties. In particular, [game] contains art assets generated by artificial intelligence that appears to be relying on copyrighted material owned by third parties.”
The letter added, “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.”
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