Steam Next Fest was great, but there’s a monster casting a shadow over it that most aren’t talking about. Yeah, It's AI. No, not the cool kind where the robots take over, but the boring kind where they only take our jobs and assets to provide unfathomably crappier game experiences.
If you're wondering just how many Steam Next Fest games have disclosed the usage of generative AI, it's over 500 games. As TechRaptor points out, the precise number is 504 games so far, which totals 17% of the entire catalog —and it gets worse. Steam's policy requires developers using any AI shenanigans to disclose them. Still, most of the time, studios only admit to it after eagle-eyed fans point out strange gameplay elements or textures that seem off. It's only after enough controversy is generated by humans that many of these studios bend the knee and disclose their usage of the dark arts.
