{"id":92476,"date":"2026-11-03T10:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T15:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92476"},"modified":"2026-11-03T10:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T15:41:04","slug":"one-popular-pc-game-storefront-has-had-enough-of-ai-slop-and-its-taking-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92476","title":{"rendered":"One Popular PC Game Storefront Has Had Enough Of AI Slop, And It\u2019s Taking Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indie game storefront Itch.io has announced it removed &#8220;a couple terabytes of AI slop&#8221; and has begun taking steps to combat\u00a0the deluge of AI-created games appearing on the platform. &#8220;Just because you can upload 10 terabytes of poorly optimized\u00a0AI-generated models doesn&#8217;t mean you should upload 10 terabytes of poorly optimized\u00a0AI-generated models,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/itchio\/status\/2117460138026221869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Itch wrote<\/a> in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The platform had already noted that the number of game pages <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:oy37ivqnriw6nx3lrbcht2u3\/post\/3mz7vswlnbs23claude-chagpt-steam-epic-2000752485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">being created per day had doubled<\/a> from 3,000 to 6,000 over the last two months, with reports of users flooding the game uploads page with <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/kenney.nl\/post\/3mzajxrb5lc2z\">dozens of AI-created game spams<\/a>. Going forward, Itch says that these sorts of bulk uploads will result in that spam being de-indexed, and filtering for generative AI disclosure will be added more sections of the site, including the search results page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This doesn&#8217;t mean Itch is outright banning AI-generated content, but it is taking a harder line against people who spam the site with it. In its\u00a0official <a href=\"https:\/\/itch.io\/docs\/creators\/quality-guidelines#avoid-uploading-excessive-amounts-of-automatically-generated-or-ai-generated-content\">terms and conditions<\/a>, Itch states that if the use of AI in a game is &#8220;clearly stated&#8221; and if &#8220;it adds substantial value&#8221; to the user experience, then that&#8217;s okay. But if you&#8217;re uploading something iterative, that&#8217;ll be against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie game storefront Itch.io has announced it removed &#8220;a couple terabytes of AI slop&#8221; and has begun taking steps to combat\u00a0the deluge of AI-created games appearing on the platform. &#8220;Just because you can upload 10 terabytes of poorly optimized\u00a0AI-generated models doesn&#8217;t mean you should upload 10 terabytes of poorly optimized\u00a0AI-generated models,&#8221; Itch wrote in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":92478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92476","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\/92476"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92479,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92476\/revisions\/92479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}