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To any indie devs hit by this: send me an e-mail (address should be in my profile), maybe I can do something about it.
Are you from steam support or are one of the hitmen they hire to deal with those situations?
When the laws don't help, when the community guidelines don't help, you do it yourself.
So, is Valve changing its rules on AI?
What Ai rules are supposed to be changed here? Nothing like that is suggested. Valve isn't against Ai, they just want it to be disclosed on their shop.
There was no suggestion that the rules are changing, but the subject does invite the question of whether or not they should.
Valve would have to wade into the legal quagmire that is "determining whether a product has been AI generated, and to what degree". No way in hell they're touching that.
But not from Valve's perspective. There is zero reason for Valve to rethink about it.
Dragon's Chronicles developer Takashi Mochibe received a demand for $200 in Steam items within 24 hours to prevent an alleged AI-made SRPG clone from launching first on Steam. He suspected the email was bulk spam; similar demands targeted developers of Iron Pilgrim and Circusar, and no payments were reported.
It seems like it would be easy to play along and set up a sting. Get the info for the mule account, send the items, report the mule account to steam, and steam can nab everyone based on where the mule transfers items to.
People just need to start sueing for copyright infringement, only way to deal with this tbh.
Copyrights won't help you here. It's not the same code or assets
How will copyright not help here? You don't have to use the same code or assets for something to be copyright infringement. It's one thing if you personally don't believe in copyright, but just claiming that it has nothing to do with copyright because it's not a 1:1 copy is just not true.
If you made something that "just happens to look like that other thing", you'll have a hard time defending that in court (especially if you extort them beforehand). Heck, there have been copyright lawsuits over musicians using similar lyrics or melodies since forever.
That copyright protection is only against using recognisable characters, samples etc and has a high evidentiary requirement. It doesn't apply to art styles, prose, game mechanics and so on.
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A trades group should be formed for Indie Devs to join that provides pooled funding for litigation. I have Nintendo's methods, but slop makers might hold back if there were potential consequences where infringement occurs.
This assumes of course we eventually get some kind of real AI regulation.
What kind of shit crap fucking garbage article is this
Is there supposed to be an article? Shit just goes to an RSS feed with nothing but headlines.
No idea what the issue is for you, but I see an article.
Link goes to an article for me
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