I’m not sure. I like the intention behind it, but I feel like using it is just asking for reply guys to harangue you with gotchas. Does your IDE use machine learning for code completion? Are you 100% sure that no gen AI was used anywhere in your tool chain? Are you sure that no code snippet you’ve found online was AI-generated? And so on. My games are hand-made and I proudly say so, but I’m not sure how to bulletproof a formalized claim like this.
Eh. I hate gen AI, but it feels a little self-congratulatory to give myself a literal medal for it, and there are humbler ways to communicate this like a quick note in the game description or the field dedicated to it in itch.io.
Yeah, there was something else I wasn’t putting my finger on, but that makes sense. I think more generally, I would just rather not talk about or call attention to AI on my game’s page at all. Steam and Itch require disclosing it now, and I have nothing to disclose, so I think that can speak for itself.
Lately I am seeing more and more projects using AI without disclosing it, and that is starting to make me value proactive statements of non-usage like this. But on the other hand, I have also seen projects aggressively lying about it in their own ad copy, so even that doesn’t necessarily mean anything.
Still, I am considering something to that effect on my Steam page. I have the no-AI tag on Itch, but Steam doesn’t have anything proactive. I hate to waste space on my page addressing this kind of trash, but it’s ubiquitous now, and it’s eroding trust.
For one of my games on Steam, an anti-AI curator left an ‘informational’ review (neither ‘recommended’ nor ‘not recommended’) saying “the devs haven’t specified any use of AI”. Which like, yeah, Steam’s only system is as a dev you disclose if you HAVE used AI, so the fact that I have not done that disclosure should mean you can extrapolate that I have not used it! But I can see why people don’t make that assumption. I’m definitely considering a seal or some sort of message like that for my current project just to set the record straight.
But I really just don’t want to talk about it, and I feel like bringing it up either way on the store page opens the discussion.