{"id":24574,"date":"2023-07-01T22:11:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T22:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/01\/valve-wont-approve-steam-games-that-use-copyright-infringing-ai-artwork\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T22:11:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T22:11:22","slug":"valve-wont-approve-steam-games-that-use-copyright-infringing-ai-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/01\/valve-wont-approve-steam-games-that-use-copyright-infringing-ai-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve won\u2019t approve Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">On Thursday, various outlets reported on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/aigamedev\/comments\/142j3yt\/valve_is_not_willing_to_publish_games_with_ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June Reddit post<\/a> from user potterharry97 saying that Steam would no longer be publishing games with AI-generated content. Later in the month, another game dev penned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DefendingAIArt\/comments\/14lybmc\/im_depressed_because_i_cant_use_ai_anymore_due_to\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a similar post<\/a>. Valve says that\u2019s not quite right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">In a statement emailed to <em>The Verge,<\/em> Valve PR representative Kaci Boyle said the company\u2019s goal is \u201cnot to discourage the use of [AI] on Steam; instead, we\u2019re working through how to integrate it into our already-existing review policies.\u201d She went on to say that the company\u2019s current review process takes into account current copyright law, and that \u201cwhile developers can use these AI technologies in their work&#8230; they can not infringe on existing copyrights.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Boyle added that Steam will refund app-submission credits for any developers whose games were rejected over AI copyright issues as the company refines its review process. It made the same offer to potterharry97.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Valve\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/partner.steamgames.com\/steamdirect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">developer submission rules<\/a> disallow \u201ccontent you don\u2019t own or have adequate rights to.\u201d Potterharry97 included the rejection message in their post, which said their game \u201ccontains art assets generated by artificial intelligence that appears to be relying on copyrighted material owned by third parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/7\/1\/23781339\/valve-steam-ai-artwork-rejecting-banning-pc-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, various outlets reported on a June Reddit post from user potterharry97 saying that Steam would no longer be publishing games with AI-generated content. Later in the month, another game dev penned a similar post. Valve says that\u2019s not quite right. In a statement emailed to The Verge, Valve PR representative Kaci Boyle said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}