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> Sounds like a cop-out. Adhering to legal and copyright standards isn't a "cop-out"
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People make business decisions all the time to avoid murky areas that may hold peril. Unless there is a big benefit to them, why take the risk?
We're on the cusp of a profound content shovelware crisis. It will happen regardless, but any oasis of real content will become important. Automation will be a force multiplier for laziness and predation more so than for creativity.
We are also on the cusp of individual developers being able to produce works that used to take entire teams. I'm working on simulating a small town using Generative AI agents, schedules, social interactions, realistic reactions to outside events, dialogue between characters, the whole shebang. A year ago that wasn't an "after work side project". I just did a full launch on https://www.generativestorytelling.ai/ - a s…
Depends what the individual is trying to do. Making memes? Blog spam? Sure. But for non-trivial content I haven’t seen an example that was compelling.
We're on the cusp of a profound content shovelware crisis. It will happen regardless, but any oasis of real content will become important. Automation will be a force multiplier for laziness and predation more so than for creativity.
> We're on the cusp of a profound content shovelware crisis. No, we've been inundated with low-quality content for decades now. This is nothing new. Fortunately, ratings and reviews and popularity have always been an extremely effective antidote. Even if 99% of stuff on a platform is total crap, nobody cares. It's a non-issue. Whether you're talking about music, books, TV shows, or whatever. The 1% rises to the top a…
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> Sounds like a cop-out. Adhering to legal and copyright standards isn't a "cop-out"
And which standard is that for ai generated art ?
It is completely reasonable for Valve to forbid this until it is sorted out. Keep mind they are a company of IP creators, creating a marketplace for IP creators. The whole reason Steam was created was to establish a DRM that fought the piracy of Half Life. I am on the side of Valve in this.
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Risk management. AI generated content has high likelihood of copyright infringement.
funny, a while ago MSFT said Copilot was not stealing code, it was merely reading it...
That's the wrong path, soon Internet for 90%++ will be mixed with AI. Btw - What if I write my game using Chat-GPT?
Engineers have created it and lawyers have ruined it. It's interesting how whole professions can be inherently constructive or inherently destructive.
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> that was the entire point of banning AI generated content, right? But AI generated content is NOT banned. You just have to prove you have the copyright (or permission) for the training data.
Which honestly sounds rather reasonable and should be the expectation of all current AI products. The only reason it wouldn't be easy enough to provide is if you just scraped any available data set with a complete disregard for intellectual property.
I'd wait for more information before making any assumptions about what Valve is doing here. So often these stories here are lacking context due to only one side trying to paint the situation in a very one-sided light.
Agreed. The link here here is to a Reddit post from an relatively unknown person claiming to be quoting a private email from Valve. Kotaku has a bit more reporting, including a second report from a developer on Reddit. Also some comments on skepticism. https://kotaku.com/valve-ai-art-generator-steam-crypto-ban-m... I'm pretty sure if this is Valve policy they'll have no trouble saying so publicly. I miss the old days…