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It seems that Valve is working on a "SteamGPT" feature that will apparently deal with Steam support issues and is somehow connected to Trust Score and CS2 anti-cheat (xcancel.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/games@lemmy.world
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[–] 42 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

One thing Valve is known for is testing things. They typically make sure technology works before rolling it out everywhere.

I'm willing to bet that they have either solved most of the problems a tool like this has by massively limiting its scope, or it never actually gets past a beta test phase.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    This. They have explicitly said that they are testing AI applications throughout the company and that it is not a concerted effort. It's a few devs wanting to try it to see if it actually adds real value or not. That's it.

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The file and class or function name or w/e literally has .proto in it.

    As in prototype.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    That's because it's a Protobuf file. Has nothing to do with prototypes.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    Well you got me there.

    https://github.com/SteamTracking/SteamTracking/tree/master/ProtobufsWebui

    There's the directory with the file in the screenshots, service_steamgpt.proto, updated 4 days ago along with a number of others, seems like it and a whole batch of related files did not exist before then.

    I am uncertain if this ... basically scraping operation is tracking the main Steam client or the Beta or what.

    There is not a very helpful description of what exactly is being pulled here, in the readme/project description.

    EDIT:

    Perhaps if you are more familiar with Protobufs, you can take a gander at these and come away with a guesstimate as to what these are doing?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    My guess is that this is part of some kind of machine learning pipeline, where users label edge cases to help train the model. Since it operates on account data, match data, and logs (see CSteamGPT_GetTask_Response), an anti-cheat use case would make sense, but it’s hard to say for sure.

    This looks like data exchanged between the Steam client and server, and doesn’t contain any logic on its own.

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