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Steam faces backlash for promoting excessive AI-created games | Generic AI slop and "Balenciaga" faces are ruining the PC platform's Next Fest, some say


Valve is celebrating new games coming to Steam with its latest Next Fest event. The digital delivery platform is promoting hundreds of free demos, streaming events, and...

Facepalm: Some gaming companies have expressed their unconditional love for assets generated through AI algorithms, but customers aren't exactly enamored with it. Even Steam, the largest gaming platform for PC, could be contributing to the promotion of AI-generated content at the expense of human-made, coherently developed experiences. Valve should then focus on the real problem affecting Steam right now: properly promoting the huge number of good, human-made games released on the platform daily.

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