Valve’s Steam Business Team took to the stage at the Steam Indie Connect event in Korea and took questions from an audience of game developers. During the chat, the issue of Steam being flooded with generative AI slop games and knockoff AI clones came up, and Valve said it’s still trying to figure out how to navigate this new world.
Valve 'Thinking About How to Solve' Steam's AI Slop Problem, but Won't Limit Developer Access
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