Even if that did happen, it wouldn't defeat the point of the disclosures at all. In fact, people will appreciate it all the more if a game is made without any AI involvement and it will become a selling point.

I'm glad that Tim Sweeny and its Epig Games Store is not the market leader.

If most games will contain AI content, then an "AI-free" badge couldn't be more important. He must understand that that statement is a complete logical fallacy, right?

We're seeing the rise of push back against AI gen stuff... https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/827650/indie-developers-gen-ai-nexon-arc-raiders

Doubling down on the glazing of the ai bubble is pretty on brand for him. In before "tim sues steam for spurious claims against ai" or some other bullshit.

Sidenote: IsThereAnyDeal.com has the steam ai declarations as part of the quick reference section on game pages now. https://mastodon.social/@isthereanydeal/115606686918493913

If it's available in "nearly all" development then you can switch the tag to say "no AI" and then I can continue discovering and buying games that don't have that BS.

But we all know, as does Sweeney, that that's a lie. And also that I wouldn't shop for games on Epic Store anyway, for reasons just like this.

Tim continues to not 'read the room'

Then put the disclaimer in all games? So what, not like they're limited quantity

Yes, like we don't have Handmade tags in products...

I dont know about the future, but a "No AI-Art" tag, makes sense to me.

This is just one of many examples on why epic is inferior

yea that's just playing on semantics. Of course machine learning will keep assisting many different workflows, thank you Tim.
Go ahead with your ML-assisted procedural animations, your ML-enhanced denoising, your ML-powered stochastic mesh pruning.

What people don't want is generated visuals/music that try and pass off as art. I'd love to summon debility to explain that the ruling class doesn't get it, but they do -it's a convenient way for them to save on human labor that is also... just too tempting to use for replacing art as well.

And wonder why Steam is succeeded but Epic is an AI slop wasteland

Sugars and additives are in nearly all foods, maybe we should stop asking manufacturers to disclose it on the ingredients list.

They make sense because we don't want your AI shit Sweeney

Tim: Valve doesn't understand the market. AI is going to lead gaming industry.

Also Tim: VALVE IS A MONOPOLY AND SHOULD SEIZE TO EXIST.

These guys live in a bubble, huffing each others’ farts

It is useful to know what games i want to avoid and boycott.

Tim can suck my sweaty balls.

More info = good.

It being ubiquitous does not mean it makes no sense. They can still say how and to what extent gen AI was used.

And people wonder why Epic games has the smallest market share of all the game stores

Tim Sweeny doesn't understand the very people he wants to have give him money. Like, at all.

I guess I won't be buying nearly all games.

Epic CEO [Tim Sweeney] is an idiot

Never buy another Epic game again, understood!

And CEOs will be the easiest position to replace with AI. Can't wait for the share holders to figure that out.

Then some clueless person complains that Steam dominates the market. When Epic is constantly shooting their foot.

People like to make informed decisions and those labels help. In proper countries even beer have content labels to say if there is rice or corn with the barley.

nahh men. This is why you (Epic) are giving away games every week for free. Nobody likes you

"Crypto/NFT disclosures make no sense, because all games will become "Play to Earn" and have NFT objects where you can transfer your Mario hat to COD 2028."

I am being glib, Sweeney probably has a point, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't take a critical look at his intentions.

Bad title, he's not an epic CEO at all.

This is why Epic is losing lol

No, it fucking won't, Tim Sweeney. Go jump off the OG Fortnite BR map so I can default dance on you while you get sent back to the lobby.

Using AI for checking a code, and then double checking it yourself is different than some waste of sperm dictating prompts to AI, and telling his friends at parties while high on ketamine adderol and coke "this is going to be the next Morrowind x Cyberpunk x Mario Brother Kart Theft Auto" is the AI badge Valve is talking about.

Depends on how it's used.

Right now it's used to replace skilled workers, be them artists, actors, or programmers.

I can certainly think of a few good uses for AI in games, but to a Corpo CEO "good use" = wider profit margins at the cost of humanity. And so we need to be informed about such things when we spend money on something that is by all rights an artform.

I've said this before that typically people don't know what they are talking about AI, but I don't expect this from people who SHOULD know what AI is.

There could be technologies that AI can assist with, hell I'm not a game dev but I assume even back in the day, devs used tricks and technologies that today could be considered as AI

However AI as in it will write you code, generate you a game and write you a story? Hell no.

Sweeney is not very smart, is he?

Super effective slop filter you say? Sign me the fuck up!

As a CEO you can decide whether to piss off on what your potential consumers demand and don't. Obviously, there's a reason why the EGS is in the shitty place it is and Steam isn't. EGS focuses on developers and publishers even when it means pissing on consumers. Steam might have spearled modern DRM "subscription"-based marketplaces, but they've also continued to cater to consumer demands even when it opposed their interests and they could have chosen to ignore them anyway.

He is funded by tencent. Of course he will push ai.

Lucky for them, I won't buy any new games. Too many fantastic older games to play that they didn't cheat and cut corners to produce.

Yes but we all know that Tim is a bit of an idiot.

We've all seen AI made games, they are awful. Terrible optimisation (often not optimised at all), programming mistakes that first year junior wouldn't make, glitchy looking art and basic gameplay because AI cannot be original.

Yeah I'm sure they're really going to take off.

Steam is my favourite multi-billion dollar monopoly 😌

And they'll become cheaper as they undoubtedly sack their talent, right?

I think if I buy a game under the pretext of it being entirely "man-made", in 2026. If it then turns out to have been partially AI produced in 2030, I should have the right to earn a refund, even if I 100% it.