A recent development on Reddit has revealed that Valve is willing to ban all Steam games that feature any type of AI-generated images. According to a post by u/potterharry97, the company is unwilling to publish games featuring AI-generated pictures created by source material that the developer does not have the rights to.
According to the Reddit post, potterharry97 was trying to publish a game to Steam with just 2 or 3 AI-generated assets that he thought would pass Valve's inspection. However, Valve contacted him, saying it could not ship the game due to copyright issues with the AI-generated art in the game, saying the art assets appeared to be "relying on copyrighted material owned by third parties." Valve added, "As the legal ownership of such AI-generated art is unclear, we cannot ship your game while it contains these AI-generated assets..."
