Valve asks developers to describe AI use in the Steam Content Survey. The rule is Valve's, not the tool vendor's, so the quotes below are from Steamworks documentation, applied to each tool by what the tool makes.
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Art, sound, narrative, or localization made with these tools is the shipped content Steam's survey asks about.
Pre-Generated: Any kind of content that ships with your game and is consumed by players that is created with the help of AI tools during development.
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Live-Generated: Any kind of content created with the help of AI tools while the game is running. In addition to following the same rules as Pre-Generated AI content, this comes with an additional requirement - in the Content Survey, you'll need to tell us what kind of guardrails you're putting on your AI to ensure it's not generating illegal content.
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Coding assistants and testing tools built into the workflow, which Valve says are not the focus of the disclosure.
Efficiency gains through the use of these tools is not the focus of this section. Instead, it is concerned with the use of AI in creating content that ships with your game, and is consumed by players. This includes content such as artwork, sound, narrative, localization, etc.
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