Devs need to disclose if game uses genAI on Itch.io Hallie Frederick | usagoldmines.com

Developers are now required to declare if their games use generative AI in their projects on Itch.io. 

In a post on the platform, founder Leaf Corcoran said that creators need to disclose whether their game uses generative AI, and if so what specifically the tech has been used for. This includes graphics, sound, text and dialogue, as well as code. 

If developers select that their game uses generative AI, it is tagged as such. There are additional tags for games that use artificial intelligence for graphics, sound, text and dialogue, and code. 

“Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that create new content (text, images, music) by learning from large datasets,” Itch.io wrote on its updated quality guidelines page. 

“This includes large language models like ChatGPT and image generation models like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion that create new outputs based on training data.

“We ask that you accurately tag your project if it contains materials produced by generative AI by utilising the AI Disclosure section on your project’s edit page.

“Projects using self-contained algorithms without external large datasets don’t require the use of generative AI tags. For example, traditional game AI like NPC pathfinding, enemy behavior patterns, procedural level generation, fuzzy logic systems, and dynamic difficulty adjustment, dynamic music, etc. are not considered generative AI and don’t need tagging.”