The Steam Next Fest has a growing AI problem that threatens to drown out the Non-AI games partaking in the event. The event has grown with more participants joining every year and the competition has gotten stiffer since there are more developers vying for your limited time during the event. Not only are there more demos every year but the number of demos have exploded exponentially thanks to the rapid expansion of AI capabilities. Thankfully there may be a solution after all.The REAL issueThe Next Fest has existed since 2019, then called the Steam Game Festival... before the Steam Deck even and long before the rise of AI generated content. It was pretty bad as it was with loads of junk games and asset flips fighting for your attention... but the proliferation of these junk games have only gotten worse thanks to ease of access. Coding, art, sound effects, and music can all be made with AI and while it's fairly easy to spot out your average AI art... the fact that so much of the…
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