The extremely popular upcoming game "Drunken Goddess Reflux" (a.k.a. "Pukey Goddess Shot Trick") is cancelling their public demo plans over fears that AI will just allow someone to release a clone of their game before they are finished with the real thing.
The release style of games looks to change a lot in the near future. A lot of "shadow drop" sort of things, no Steam Next Fests (Steam's public demo festivals), a lot less experimental indie content and a lot more safe bets from big companies who have the technical expertise to do anti reverse engineering work.
(Unless perhaps a legislative response comes, so that AI-washing a program is definitively declared as creating a commercial derivative work and activating the harsh penalties for that in existing copyright law.)
mister_mort•1h ago
Their Steam page announcement is here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4150720/view/7460665...
The release style of games looks to change a lot in the near future. A lot of "shadow drop" sort of things, no Steam Next Fests (Steam's public demo festivals), a lot less experimental indie content and a lot more safe bets from big companies who have the technical expertise to do anti reverse engineering work.
(Unless perhaps a legislative response comes, so that AI-washing a program is definitively declared as creating a commercial derivative work and activating the harsh penalties for that in existing copyright law.)