Hi! I am working on a website akin to steamdb but for categorizing games on their AI use in the following
Categories:
- Handcrafted: The game has been confirmed untouched by GenAI
- Tainted: Gen AI has been used in any aspect of this game’s creation. Any usage of the technology puts you in this category.
- Slop: Use of Gen AI is outwardly visible by players
- Fraud: Developer lied about AI involvement in their products.
How the system would work:
It’d be a comunity driven, honor based effort. Users would summit reports and a group of trusted moderators would validate them.
Why I’m making this post:
I am looking for possible questions, problems, challenges and ideas you guys might come up with. I have a “Questions and answers” section down bellow with what I’d cover up myself.
Questions and answers
What counts as GenAI?
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Claude, Deepseek, etc. Image generation models line Nano Banana, Stable diffusion, etc.
Why take such a harsh stance on GenAI?
AI use has been irrevocably tied to the problems it creates. It’s being used as a tool to centralize power away from artists and creators towards a select few people with too much money on their hands.
Using AI is analogous to accepting all of the valid concerns against it and endorsing the problems it’s wedged themselves in.
What counts as AI usage?
Any personal use by you or anyone you are in charge of on the project. It’s the duty of the person in charge to ensure that your work stays human.
“I use local models I’d be allowed in handcrafted”
You’re still furthering the use of a technology designed to steal and plagiarize. While local models address some of the enviromental problems of GenAI it’s still an active endorsement of the theft done to train such models.
“I barely used GenAI for my game”
You made the choice to use GenAI on your game. You might have not been aware of the consequences of such choice but it’s still a choice you made.
“My game has been tagged tainted even though I made it all”
This is a community effort, I’m sorry if you’ve been falsely targeted/tagged. There’s always going to be bad actors. Contact the website at [email protected] and we’ll do our best to rectify the error.
“Why shouldn’t I just not disclose that I used GenAI”
No one’s forcing you to disclose the use of such technology but it’s something customers care about letting your customers make informed choices is how you build a reputation of quality and honesty.
“Why shouldn’t I just lie about my GenAI use?”
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fraud
Appart from that we have a special category reserved for this fraud. This is a website built around an honor system of reputation, do not tarnish it with abuse.
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And with that the mess of ideas and html I’ve been messing with is out. My progress is slow but I’m making steps. The tech stack is based on the human-centric language zig, using a jsx-like framework named ziex, which I’ve been thoroughly enjoying. I plan on making the website fully open source but there’s very little to showcase just yet. I’m just here to bounce ideas with the open web.
I would actually argue that there is some validity to scrutinizing code supply chain. For example a dev could choose to a human-crafted library in c++ or use a vibe-coded “port” to rust or whatever because that’s the language they’re more familiar with. Those choices are worth investigating.
For that I’ve got a personal example. I have a professional project made in laravel a PHP framework. I made the choice to use it before the AI craze, I am maintaining the project but I didn’t choose for the tech stack to embrace AI like it did.
The fact that these projects take long to make does bind you to the choices of someone else makes that you can’t control.
But you did nail it in the head, it’s the focus on personal choice that I’m aiming at.