Valve Forces Steam Devs To Play Their Own Games To Fight AI Slop
Amidst an industry-wide surge in AI-generated games, game clones, recomps, and mods, Valve has added a few new requirements to its release checklist, the most notable of which is that a game needs to be played through the Steam launcher for at least five minutes.
Officially, the reason for this is that even if a game runs perfectly fine without the Steam wrapper, some steps may have been missed that ensure it is actually installable and playable for other users. When one reads between the lines, though, Valve feeling the need to add such a bare-minimum rule after an entire decade since the direct-publish floodgates were opened clearly indicates a influx of more AI shovelware than it wants to deal with.
Outside of Steam, the topic of generative AI slop has been prominent across virtually every major media platform or artistic medium. Most recently, Anthropic banned the use of its...
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