Valve has revised its rules for releasing AI games on Steam and will now allow most of them to be published.

In a new blog post that the company released tonight, they said that after several months of studying the issue and discussing it with developers, the rules prohibiting the publication of games with AI are being removed.

First of all, the company is updating the content survey that developers take before publishing a game on the platform. They added questions about the use of AI for development and in the game itself.

The company divides the use of artificial intelligence in game development into two types:

Pre-generated content means any type of content (graphics, code, sound, etc.) created using AI tools during development. According to the Steam Distribution Agreement, developers undertake to Valve that they will not include illegal content or content that infringes the copyrights of others in their game and that marketing materials will be consistent with its content. When reviewing a game prior to release, Valve will evaluate the AI-generated content used in the game in the same way that it evaluates non-AI-generated content, including to ensure that the game is consistent with your commitments.
Real-time generated content is any type of content created by AI tools during the game. In addition to the rules for using pre-generated AI content, there is another requirement: in the content survey, the company asks developers to tell about the safeguards implemented in the game to ensure that artificial intelligence does not generate illegal content.

In order to monitor the use of artificial intelligence, Valve is also introducing the ability for players to complain about illegal content in games using generative AI in real time.

Valve also clarifies that these rules do not yet apply to games with sexual content. “We are not ready to release such games at this time,” they wrote in a blog post.