Valve recently rejected some games for using AI assets — and says it’s because of AI’s legal gray area with regards to copyright.
Valve has expressed hesitation about allowing games with AI assets onto the Steam store. Several game developers recently came forward saying their games were rejected by Valve for this reason, and today Valve released a statement expressing reservations about allowing such games given the current state of AI and copyright law.
A Valve spokesperson said in a statement published to GamesIndustry.biz: “The introduction of AI can sometimes make it harder to show a developer has sufficient rights in using AI to create assets, including images, text, and music. In particular, there is some legal uncertainty relating to data used to train AI models. It is the developer’s responsibility to make sure they have the appropriate rights to ship their game.”
Last month, a developer posted their rejection letter from Valve on the AIGameDev subreddit.
