Amid an ongoing debate about the presence of AI in tabletop gaming, online marketplace itch.io announced that all developers on the site must disclose whether their projects contain AI-generated content. Itch.io’s disclosure policy is not an outright ban, but will make it easier for tabletop fans who oppose the controversial and contradictory topic to opt in environmentally harmful technology to avoid purchasing AI-generated content.
According to the announcement According to itch.io founder Leaf Corcoran, all asset creators on the platform must classify the content they currently upload to the site. Any products that contain AI-generated art will be labeled as such, while users who specifically mark their content as human-made will receive a “No-AI” tag.
There will be a transition period for the categorization of your products. A bulk tagging tool is available for publishers with a large number of products. “Assets consisting of generative AI (even if they are subsequently modified) that are not tagged will no longer be indexable on our search pages,” Corcoran explained. In response to a comment, Corcoran also clarified that users who lie about the presence of AI-generated content in their products or omit the disclosure tags will not be removed from the site, but from indexing on the discovery page to potential buyers Above all, new games were introduced.
On the itch Quality guidelines pageThe company explained that the implementation of this policy was “due to legal ambiguity regarding rights related to generative AI content.” Content created by generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are largely trained on datasets consisting of visual and text-based art without the approval of the original creators the topic a number of Litigation And Complaints.
