Developers Must Reveal Use of GenAI in Games on Itch.io

Developers now need to be upfront about using generative AI in their games on Itch.io.

In a recent announcement, Leaf Corcoran, the platform’s founder, stated that creators must reveal if and how generative AI is implemented in their projects. This disclosure covers various elements such as graphics, sound, dialogue, text, and even code.

When developers acknowledge the involvement of generative AI in their game, the project automatically gets tagged accordingly. There are specific tags available for AI contributions in areas like graphics, sound, dialogue, text, and coding.

“Itch.io explains on its revised quality guidelines page that generative AI pertains to AI systems that create new content such as text, images, and music by learning from extensive datasets. This includes models like ChatGPT for language and DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion for generating images based on training data,” the post elaborates.

Additionally, they encourage developers to appropriately mark their projects if they include generative AI-generated materials by using the AI Disclosure section found on the project’s edit page.

Projects that utilize algorithms operating independently of large external datasets don’t need these generative AI tags. Examples include traditional game AI elements like NPC pathfinding, enemy behavior patterns, procedural level generation, fuzzy logic systems, and dynamic difficulty adjustment or music. These are categorized differently and aren’t considered generative AI, so tagging them isn’t necessary.