"一款游戏Heard of the Story被证明使用ChatGPT产生NPC对话,
Steam查明之后直接令其下架. 即便开发商将其功能关闭.
也无法阻止 Steam 判定此游戏不再可申请上架的决定."
https://nichegamer.com/steam-bans-game-over-removed-ai-feature/
Steam bans game over removed AI feature
by Brandon Lyttle
on September 5, 2023 at 1:28 PM, EDT
Steam has “retired” a game from their store after a game briefly ran afoul
of the platform’s AI policy.
The creator of Heard of the Story? posted their situation to both Reddit and
Twitter. They explained that the game briefly had a toggle which allowed
users to hook ChatGPT into the game via API to replace throwaway dialogue
generated by NPCs.
When entering Early Access, Valve allegedly required clarification on the game
’s use of AI. Just to be safe, the option was removed from the game. However
despite the clarification and subsequent removal, Valve persisted in removing
the game from the site and the developer “can never publish it on their
store again”.
About 3-4 month ago, I decided to include an optional ChatGPT mod in the
playtest build of my game which would allow players to replace the dialogue
of NPCs with responses from the ChatGPT API. This mod was entirely optional,
not required for gameplay, not even meant to be part of it, just a fun
experiment. It was just a toggle in the settings, and even required the
playtester to use their own OpenAI API key to access it.
Fast-forward to about a month ago when I submitted my game for Early
Access review, Steam decided that the game required an additional review by
their team and asked for details around the AI. I explained exactly how this
worked and that there was no AI-content directly in the build, and even since
then issued a new build without this mod ability just to be super safe.
However, for almost one month, they said basically nothing, they refused to
give estimates of how long this review would take, what progress they’ve
made, or didn’t even ask any follow-up questions or try to have a
conversation with me. This time alone was super stressful as I had no idea
what to expect. Then, today, I randomly received an email that my app has
been retired with a generic ‘your game contains AI’ response.
I’m in absolute shock. I’ve spent years working on this, sacrificing
money, time with family and friends, pouring my heart and soul into the game,
only to be told through a short email ‘sorry, we’re retiring your app’…
Valve has adopted a strict policy on AI generated content, deciding that
until the courts make a ruling on the ownership of AI generated content then
games containing it cannot be sold on Steam.
While Valve’s decision would otherwise appear to be in line with their
policy, the creator emphasizes that they never provided AI generated content
in the game and that users had to have their own API key to even enable the
feature. A feature that was removed anyway after Valve voiced their concerns.
It’s worth mentioning that the game does advertise itself as using AI, but
only in the sense that its NPC dialogue is drawn from a database. No “
Generative AI” is allegedly used.