SteamDB now lets players filter out games that use generative AI
Players can now choose to only see games which haven’t been confirmed to use generative AI tech
Steam database site SteamDB has added a new tag which lets players filter out games that use generative AI.
For the past year Steam has required developers to disclose whether generative AI is used in their game when submitting it to Steam.
As well as disclosing whether generative AI was used, the developer also has to describe exactly how it’s used. This then appears on the game’s store in a section called ‘AI Generated Content Disclosure’.
For example, the AI section in the Steam page for The Outlast Trials includes a message from the developer saying: “Throughout the development of our game, we may leverage AI-based tools to assist our team in content creation. Please rest assured that what you see in the game reflects the creativity and hard work of our team. Examples may include pictures and/or posters used in some of our environments.”
Players who may not necessarily support the use of generative AI can then use this information to determine whether they still want to buy the game.
Steam currently doesn’t make it possible to filter its games so that only those without AI Generated Content Disclosure sections can be viewed, but SteamDB has now added this filter. A new ‘AI Content Disclosed’ tag on the site lists the more than 4,900 games currently on Steam which have an AI Generated Content Disclosure section in them.
Because developers who don’t use generative AI dont have to provide a disclosure, and because not disclosing it is a breach of Steam’s terms, it can be assumed that a game not on this list either doesn’t use generative AI, or hasn’t disclosed it (and therefore risks action from Steam).
Players browsing SteamDB can add &tagid=-1368160 to the end of their URL to remove games that have disclosed the use of generative AI.
For example, SteamDB provides a list of current Steam Next Fest demos, which consists of 2,186 demos. By applying the filter, this removes 92 demos in which the developers have declared the use of generative AI.
