Generative AI is ruining gaming but I think there's hope

Yeah, it's another post about AI and no, it wasn't what I originally had planned but it continues to infest what feels like all discussions like a bad rash so here we are again. Keep reading to the end though because I think there's hope for this problem.Steam Slop FestSince relaunching this blog in 2025, I've done a round up of my top demos from each Steam Next Fest. Three so far. Those posts take longer to put together than most and get by far the least interest so I was debating skipping this one but after seeing what was on offer at the start of the most recent event, I had no motivation to even bother. The number of games that were either obvious AI slop or worse, AI rip-offs of existing games made my heart sink. Worse, many games I thought looked potentially interesting had AI disclosures that showed the majority of their content wasn't human made. Two developers have even pulled their planned public playtests from Steam because they fear they'll be immediately copied by AI Pigs…