I see a lot of free games on here that are made with AI, and personally i’m not interested in AI generated content. If other people feel the same way, maybe we could start tagging posts accordingly?
Ok, thanks everyone for your input, here’s the new rule I’ve added to the sticky post:
If the game has an “AI Disclosure” then please include it in the post body too
Hopefully this allows interested readers to get the info without too much extra effort required by the posters, but don’t forget the golden rule: keep it civil and keep it chill!
It’s to the point where everything that’s AI should have to be flagged with AI. That way we know it’s AI so we can avoid it.
Yep, please at least copy any disclosure the devs have made!
Would also appreciate a “could not find disclosure” for everything else.
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Yes, but it should be limited to using ai for assets lit art, voice acting, models, etc.
I don’t think should be used to tag games that have used ai as part of their development. Like how are they able to determine how much ai is warranted at tag. Would one dev using ai search to look something up counts as ai use?
Don’t like it. It’s a dumb rule.
I like the idea if it could be done automatically. I don’t think people who find a good deal should be required to investigate further to make a determination of if it’s AI. And like other commenters, I wouldn’t find a simple binary “does/doesn’t use AI” all that useful. It’s necessary to know how the AI was used.
How could something like this even be done automatically?
It would require Lemmy support flair that mods can add to posts, similar to what Reddit already has. Then a bit would check steamdb (for steam links) and flair as necessary, since Steam requires the game flag itself. On other platforms, I doubt it could be done, unless there was a generally-available crowd-sourced database of AI games.
But in practice, with the technology that exists today? I don’t think it could.
No. AI is too broad, it’s not catch all phrase.
of course not, it will be an added burden that posters can’t possibly satisfy.
this isn’t an investigative community.
Absolutely it should be tagged, and I think the AI Generated Content Disclosure from the store page could be included in the post body too for Steam games.
Yes, 100% mandatory!
100% without question I support that.
Of course, that needs to be mandatory!
As the person who posts the most here my main question is how? I don’t have any way to know what was used beyond what is posted on the game’s page. Some sites like Steam force disclosure, so anyone interested can just look there. Some like Itch don’t even enforce a description of the game so you’ve got no idea with them!
“AI” is a generic marketing term for a load of different things (for instance you might have different opinions on generating all your graphics compared to translating your game into another language compared to using a code assist compared to cloning an entire game), so a catch-all “uses AI” term isn’t necessarily relevant to everyone.
Ultimately if you’re posting you’ve always been free to put as much or as little info in the post description as you like, and to add extra info in the comments if you find something relevant about someone else’s post.
Some like Itch don’t even enforce a description of the game so you’ve got no idea with them!
Itch doesn’t force a description, but they do force a ‘do you use gen AI’ tag. You can even filter on use of gen AI now.
Ideal, thanks!
Thank you for dedicating your time to create these posts. :)
You’re welcome!
My suggestion would be that any ai disclosures the developers make (whether they say it contains AI or if they explicitly say it does not) should be included in the post body. Obviously sometimes people overlook things, but I think it would be a good norm for the community.
Obviously it’s your comm so do what you want with it :)
Seems fair, I usually copy the description anyway so if there’s some disclosure it’s not much extra effort to copy that too. Other posters don’t always add a post description though, so I’m not going to start deleting posts just because that info is missing!
Would you mind at least “recommending” it in the sidebar?
Sure, I’ll wait and see what other discussion comes out of this thread and then make some updates
Thanks, I appreciate it!
In principle, I think having these tags would be a good thing. I don’t know about making it a hard requirement though as in many cases, posters may not know for sure whether AI was used or not.
I think it could also be relevant to know how AI was used. For me, there’s a big difference between a vibe-coded project full of generated assets and a game where AI was just used for something like debugging.
So maybe, one way to go about it is to have a short Steam-Style “AI-disclosure” in the description for games, where that information is available or obvious. Like “Uses AI-generated 2D-Assets” or “Uses AI for text translations” etc. But as I wrote, I would make it a suggestion rather than a requirement.
I don’t think reading the store page for a game you post is that much of a requirement. Obviously if the developers don’t say one way or another, then the poster won’t / can’t know.
And yes, including the disclosure text in the post body would be nice.
