You can. Add tags/genres to your ignored list, and you won't see any games marked with them.

That hurts Valve's bottom line.

Never going to happen

Part of the issue with this approach is that you essentially get to something like a karma system, where well known developers are pushed to the top.

This is something Valve just spent a lot of time and effort to undo, so small, new indie devs get as much storefront space as the veterans.

for me, step one is allowing me to block from sight, ANYTHING a by a supposed AAA developer. I do NOT want to see anything from ea, ubisoft, etc when searching for games.

another would be, if the game is early access and has 30 DLCs... I never want to see that companies 'products' again.

and honestly, that's it for me. Idgaf about ai slop of clone games (yet), good chance they are still individuals doing it and not some massive corporation.

I will always support the smaller teams whenever possible... I never want to see anything from rockstar, Ubisoft or whatever... all trash

Well. The real problem is that there's no way to definitively detect AI. And slop scammers are certainly not going to volunteer that information.

When you say cloning are you meaning like how there's now 200 different versions of lethal company on steam now?

Valve may just have to grit their teeth and actually hire people to do community work 😞 RIP. Where will they get the money??

Yeah out of 100 vibe coded games. Iv come across like 3 that were legitimately good.

Those three where actually very very good games But they were tiny little things clearly made because the guy who made them WANTED to play them.

While the rest where just asset flips or clearly just attempting to make a cheap quick buck.

It's just a great example of the problem. AI by itself doesn't cause an issue. We already had this problem. Asset flips low-called a crash grabs have always been a thing.

Problem AI caused is now it's a thousand times easier for literally every lazy f*** to do this.

Banning AI games should not happen. It is possible to make something legitimately fun and worthwhile playing with nothing but AI.

We need to solve the fact that every d****** can just s*** onto the steam store with no effort and leave something half built and abandoned.

Disclosure at a minimum. Better filtering harsher vote waiting.

My problem is every other idea I can think of unfairly smacks legitimate AI games or legitimate games that use AI as an actual proper tool as opposed to just a lazy way to asset flip.

Is not a lot of good ways to do this. To be fair, if there were we wouldn't have asset flips in low quality cash crabs either.

This is what they need to do. Give people the choice.

If it's not technically doable, then we'll do it ourselves, we'll fight over which game is and isn't full of slop. And, we'll be wrong sometimes, but increasingly right. Because, soon ALL media will be full of slop, including games.

The only way to avoid it will be to play old games. Which is fine by me, but there's always the next generation of gamers coming up who won't be so picky.

Steam already has the first two, and I'm pretty sure it has the third because it's illegal. It's just a matter of effort and volume. So many generated games can be put on Steam that it's almost impossible to keep up. If they don't disclose generative AI usage then it takes time to discover, and that time can steal the spotlight from the legitimate games.

Like in the pre-search-engine internet you would have indexes, or whatever they were called, listing useful websites.

Rotten Tomatoes -> Bots and Tomatoes. Is it AI slop or hot?

Neal Stephenson explores these ideas in a few of his books. Basically that there is so much false information online that the biggest advantage you can have is good software for sifting through it.

Pretty much this. I am reminded of when reality TV first came up, it was thought that it would be a passing fad lasting maybe a year or two. People get exited by it at first, then get bored of it craving something with more substance. It never happened. Turns out the slop machine hit a level good enough that many would lap it up. Survivor is going into it 51st season right now.

But while this stuff can be produced (be it text, TV, software), you can curate it. Those curated lists will become the new social treasure like how some movie critics could become minor celebrities in themselves. Yeah there will be AI bots trying to do that as well, but if they fall flat, so to will their respect.

You're going to see the media organic content labels, just like groceries have "regular" and "organic". There's demand for such a certification so it wouldn't surprise me to see that in the near future.

So basically the current steam curators system but you have to pay to see what they curate. And valve wins again

I think filtering is the best thing they could give us as customers. They already have AI disclosures, but I don't think we have the ability to filter for AI right now.

I'd say not only labelled, but at the very least if we ain't ostracizing generative ai being used in any part of the process, we should at least have the dignity to have it quarantined. I for one don't feel like buying and installing malware because a yahoo who cannot actually read their own code decides to upload to Steam, let alone literally any other platform.

And before that, wading through 200 asset flipping games before finding something good.

Ironpineapple's job gonna be very interesting for the next few years.

I think the problem with a ban is that the creators of AI slop will stop disclosing or tagging it.

Allowing it with tags + letting users filter it out might be the best way to reduce it?

100% this.

if using AI in your product adds so much value to your product, then why are you hiding it??

Why would anyone making AI spam label their spam as AI?