{"id":92021,"date":"2026-10-26T06:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92021"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:37:56","slug":"epic-games-boss-tim-sweeney-doubles-down-on-valve-criticism-says-steams-ai-content-disclosure-is-a-political-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92021","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games Boss Tim Sweeney Doubles Down on Valve Criticism, Says Steam’s AI Content Disclosure Is a ‘Political Act’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney spent the weekend doubling down on his severe criticism of Valve, calling Steam\u2019s AI content disclosure a \u201cpolitical act.\u201d<\/p>\n

The controversial majority owner of Epic is all in on AI, having recently triggered a \u201chuge pivot\u201d of the company to retool it for \u201cmaximum AI acceleration,\u201d Sweeney said<\/a>. Epic is a long-standing rival of Gabe Newell\u2019s Valve, with the Epic Games Store struggling to make a dent in Steam\u2019s dominance over the PC gaming market even as it offers developers more financially beneficial terms.<\/p>\n

Sweeney is particularly upset with Steam\u2019s AI content disclosure policy, which requires developers to disclose the use of AI in \u201ccreating content that ships with your game, and is consumed by players.\u201d This includes content such as artwork, sound, narrative, and localization. It does not include \u201cefficiency gains\u201d through the use of AI tools.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Sweeney hit out at Valve\u2019s policy<\/a>, saying \u201cforcing developers to write a political statement to be used against them by the hate mob they\u2019re helping organize is abhorrent.\u201d This statement sparked a backlash online, with a number of people \u2014 developers included \u2014 confused by the suggestion that an AI disclosure was political in any way, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney spent the weekend doubling down on his severe criticism of Valve, calling Steam\u2019s AI content disclosure a \u201cpolitical act.\u201d The controversial majority owner of Epic is all in on AI, having recently triggered a \u201chuge pivot\u201d of the company to retool it for \u201cmaximum AI acceleration,\u201d Sweeney said. Epic is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":92023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92025,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92021\/revisions\/92025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}