Valve has revealed its reasoning for removing games that make use of AI-generated art from Steam, citing potential copyright issues from the art used to train the AI.

  • comic_zalgo_sans@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    AI/ML is the gold rush/get rich quick scheme of the moment, it seems inevitable that there’s going to be lawyers stalking in its wake seeing what they can shake out as well, and IIRC this is already happening. It’s not without grounds for a company to be cautious about being collateral damage to another company being over-zealous.

    The thing I don’t see talked about which is a more general concern of mine is how central Valve is to PC gaming, where developers must release there or they won’t get much trade. On PC there’s no ‘rule’ that steam is the only store, they could publish elsewhere, but it’s the only viable one so unless you’re already on the scale of a big publisher and even then it’s questionable. It’d be real interesting if there was a range of viable markets/stores and Valve didn’t have that degree of control/influence.