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  1. Valve to tackle Steam AI game surge through smarter recommendations

    Valve said it will not restrict developers’ use of AI tools and instead plans to improve Steam’s recommendation, filtering and game-discovery systems, according to IT之家 citing NeoWin and Inven. At the Steam Indie Connect event, Marc Wilkinson said participating games are shown randomly for the first two days of Steam Next Fest before personalized recommendations begin, a design Valve acknowledged may expose low-quality games. Valve also advised developers to differentiate their games with original features, personality and creativity, while TechSpot reported that the company will investigate reported AI-clone extortion cases.

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  2. Low-Quality AI Games Prompt Calls for a Steam Next Fest Filter

    Valve’s Steam Next Fest opened with what appears to be a larger-than-usual influx of low-quality submissions, including games whose artwork appears to have been generated with AI. Players said they were struggling to find human-made titles and requested a filter for AI-generated content. Steam already requires developers to self-label AI content and has a tagging system, although Valve reduced the number of user-defined tags in May. One player also called for stricter submission rules.

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  3. AI cloning fears lead indie studio to delay Steam Next Fest demo

    Ars Technica reports that indie studio Alliance Arts delayed the planned public demo of its demon-themed Russian Roulette drinking game Drunken Goddess Reflux, which had been set to launch with Steam Next Fest. The studio said it worried the demo's content could be quickly imitated or replicated with AI or other tools, and that such works could be released before its own launch; it now plans closed sessions with rules on posting and streaming gameplay. The report also cites Papers, Please developer Lucas Pope saying he avoids discussing in-progress work, Freya Holmér describing AI-coded copies of her rotating Tetris prototype, and Sos Sosowski calling the situation a bind between not promoting a game and having ideas copied.

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