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Sadly Steam and itch are currently the only stores with any kind of mandatory AI disclosure. If GOG ever adds something similar, I'd be happy to make a GOG version of the extension too!

Wait... GOG not requiring any disclaimer... Ok, that's gonna give me some second thoughts. At least ZOOM Platform and Itch.io exist, I guess...

Aaaand I changed my mind a bit with the no-disclaimer policy mu.social/profile/noon...

Thats completely irrelevant to my comment about GOG

I like the idea of denormalization this does. Maybe it's about giving a positive incentive to do it the proper way: placeholder art made by people, creative risks, collaborations early in a project, or programmer art as a healthy process for programmers.

Awesome site, gotta bookmark and share that! If any questions about the extension come up while adding it, feel free to contact me. (I made it.)

Nice extension! It works on Android Firefox! My only complaint (if any) is I don't need the second line (and as long as I can click the item to see why it's appearing, maybe it's not necessary?)

They're trying to be honest and they're not keylogging/helicoptering all their devs. Hence the later Steam AI disclosure update on "Only if it's player visible".

I read one where the first paragraph was all we used real voices and people etc.. And the last paragraph was where they admitted to using it for art. Hoping people don't read it all the way through

I don't know enough about Firefox to answer you but my gues is that it will work.

Steam loves AI. Stop treating them like a baby when they clearly just want more money to steal from the videogame industry to do not even make games with.

I dearly hope so because the environment is rapidly growing toxic, both to customers and creators. Like an algae bloom all this AI slop is choking out what little space is left. And now we're also seeing a chilling effect with people afraid to even put out demos in fear of instantly being copied

Currently not a lot since it's a very recent phenomenon. But we're already seeing devs hesitant to put out demos or release games until they are done. And I can't imagine having to wade through a literal mountain of slop to find something worth wishlisting is what valve wants the Steam fest to be

Especially the ones that don't say it's there and you find out later.

Even if they wanted to, banning it just means fewer devs would disclose using it

Steam has never required AI coding assistance to be disclosed to the consumer. Where this could get iffy is that AI can be used to make code that can make graphics or sound, instead of directly generating it.

That article is from back in January. It's nothing new. Those changes have already been in effect for a while.

Would love it if someone managed to port this to Decky so it can be used on the Steam Deck store.

It kind of sucks that this flags games like Taiko for having... (gasp) VOCALOID MUSIC! Jokes aside, thanks for the work on this!

Steam as a AI disclosure section where game using gen AI that customer can see has to disclose it.

It checks for the AI disclosure devs must fill up when their games have AI.

That's under the impression that AI users have a shred of creativity and hard work ethic within them. Which they, you know, don't.

Good for you. I'll *actively* work against any AI game i see.

I just tried it with Librewolf 158.0-1 on Linux and it worked fine. Is it giving you any error messages or other info? If you can't get the Firefox version to work, you could also try the userscript version.

Try installing it directly into Steam bsky.app/profile/pmrd...

Appreciated!

UPDATE: Yup, steamdb.info can filter my library on user-generated tags, like AI content!

I think you can do that on SteamDB

I appreciate the idea of wanting to stick it to em, but personally, I think this is "theft with extra steps", unfortunately. Everything AI creates is built off stolen content, so while you aren't using sampling it, it's still just kinda.. extended stolen content.

You're not sticking it to them though. You're just taking & using stuff that already made use of stolen works/effort. Plus, it can lead to attention on the original slop & encourage the person to 'make' even more of it.

I have friends I've already been collabing with, and friends projects who I've been allowed to make covers of!

Legitimising it

100% agree. I have a no AI coverage policy myself.

Sadly I haven't found the time to implement that yet, but I hope I will soon. I want it to be available everywhere in the store eventually. 😄

Bouncing off this, if you find any that have undeclared AI, please let us know asnd show what the AI content is so we can flag them in our database. store.steampowered.com/curator/4525... store.steampowered.com/curator/4550...

Thank you for adding the monster-free mode. I know it's not really your design intent, but still!

THANK YOUUU, incredibly convenient to have the function within Steam itself <3

crx is the file format of Chromium (which is what the browser parts of the steam app are under the hood) extensions. Seems to install itself once you save it wherever you like.

When I tested one of those extensions (I found two) I'm pretty sure it only worked for the search results page. Fortunately I have a bookmarklet (not an extension, probably not as graceful) specifically for event pages, which I've also added a "collapse AI" button to. cney.stream/tools/steam-...

does this work on linux?

Nice nice nice

i went to add this to my app versions(since i never use the web page version) and i apparently did so before. lol still an amazing tool to have.

Wow that's wild that that works. Thanks!

It works on Millennium, that's how I've been using it.

Actually I followed your directions and it just wants to install it on my version of chrome not the app.

you can install chrome extensions in steam???

This is great. Thank you

Alright so it's working now. No idea why it wasn't beforehand. Thank you for making this and I apologize for any inconveniences here.

Is there any way to do this for the steam mobile app?

This seems surprising. I'd expect modifying the "browser" part of Steam to be heavily patched by now.

Unfortunately, probably the latter, but at least at that point they're breaking Steam's TOS, and if discovered can be reported.

God bless you, I had no idea this was a thing. Doing this asap.

Awesome will give that a look so I can know what dodge engaging with

Also heads up: Steam does not enforce its AI disclosure policy, so a game not having the warning does not guarantee the game is free from AI. If something seems off about a game it probably is.

I don't know that they haven't *ever* taken action when a game failed to disclose AI use. I can certainly find examples of undisclosed AI use, but as I click through the Next Fest demos that have capsule art that I have high confidence is AI generated, I'd say at least 2/3's have a disclosure.

right, i forgot that specific, thank you!

There really is a ridiculous amount of AI garbage on Nextfest...just scrolling thumbnails looking for coop games, like half the first page was AI right off the rip.

fr have some self respect. why pay someone selling you a service they had no part in making. I genuinely hate the time we're in. had such a fun run with internet growing up, where small businesses could thrive why did we enter the biggest scam epidemic so fast?

This is really helpful!

Thank you!

The extension checks if the developers have added an AI Generated Content Disclosure to the game's store page, so it's not guessing based on tags or keywords.

Nope :(

Yup, fuck it