Valve has responded to the worrying trend of games being cloned using generative-AI and sold on Steam, but instead of admonishing those games or promising to do something about them, it appears to have put the onus on developers to make their games less copyable. Read more
Valve addresses Steam's AI game cloning problem - by suggesting developers make their games less copyable
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