Sony didn’t filter non-AI lazy slop before now other than rare exceptions. Why would they bother filtering the AI slop?

I don’t need a store front filter, I have you guys.😁

And I’m pretty close to just being done with gaming at this point anyway. Basically just b/c I’m old but the cost and 3-5 year game development cycles have worn me down and turned me off.

I mean sure I’ll keep gaming in some capacity, Apple Arcade on iPad w/ Applecast (whatever it’s called) to my tv with a PS5 controller works well enough. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Nothing lasts forever.😝

What’s so bad about a Finnish Cottage Simulator?

Sony is actively attacking basic consumer rights, so I highly doubt they gaf about this. But if for whatever reason they did implement a slop filter, I hope there’s a setting to leave it on by default as I’d never want to turn it off.

I would definitely make use of a filter like this, and if I could, leave it permanently 'on' to remove games with Gen-AI in the finished product.

This would in turn make companies think long and hard about it's use, so a win-win situation.

(Edit) Sony have already been active removing certain games from its store, and this seems the next sensible step in this process. A Pro consumer move like this would be good for Sony.

So much slop on the store right now. Imagine in a few years time.

With many developers integrating AI into their workflow, how do you distinguish one from the other? If a solo dev or small team uses AI to develop an honest to goodness high effort game and must declare it, do Capcom and Square also need to declare it? Would their games get caught in the same filter?

I'm not arguing against the need to filter out garbage. There just has to be a way to define what the garbage is. You know it when you see it, but how do you build a filter for it?

@Max_the_German There is nothing wrong about Finnish Cottage Simulator but it's being sabotaging just like MindsEye was.

I would appreciate it. Steam already lets you filter out things by early access, pre-order offers, software, things not in your language, VR content or even tags. There's so much stuff released these days, who's got the time to trawl through it all?

Maybe, don't know, don't care. If AI made an amazing game I would play it without prejudice so I guess not. Like someone already said, all devs will use it at some point so how will you distinguish?

@IntrepidWombat
I believe the sensible limit is to have No Gen-AI assets in the finished product, and developers would have to declare this, with penalties for declaring falsely.

It’s getting to the point where game announcements are being fed into AI to create copycats before the original even releases! Smaller studios are becoming hesitant to release demos, trailers, or even screenshots these days.

I don't really browse through the store to find new games as I usually know what games I want and add them to wishlist. So I only look at my wishlist when I'm in the store. But a filter for AI would still be nice.

Add this to the list of many, many things the PS Store needs to implement to get it fully functional, reliable and discoverable. I won't hold my breath.

We need more specific tags. There's a difference between a fully vibe-coded slop game and someone who used AI-assisted code tools within an editor, but the wording on Steam would require a developer to check the box in either case.

Look, programmers have been copying and pasting code from stack overflow and etc for a very long time. I think gamers care more if the assets and story were AI generated than if someone used copilot to help with a physics or camera issue.

Steam are just as bad for allowing some truly awful games on their platform....

Idk how people can bang on about ‘what if good games were made using AI’ when if you take a 30 second glance at the PS Store you’ll immediately see the issue with allowing slop. It’s everywhere, they’re all bad ripoffs designed to trick people and it’s needing sorted.

This might sound harsh, but Sony's ship has already sailed.

I know AI is a poisoned term in video gaming right now, but a blanket filter on any AI usage seems unhelpful. There's a world of difference between a game developed by an entire team of people, including artists, that uses AI at certain points of the workflow, or an almost completely generated and/or vibe coded piece of slop. This filter or tag or whatever would treat both extremes, and everything in between, the same. It's up to everyone to decide whether they think that's right, but I certainly don't.

As usual, there's a lot more nuance to it.

Thinking about this further, this could be a really low cost/risk win for Sony too.

Whilst there are 'On a whim' purchases, those who find Gen-AI distasteful are more than likely just to go and purchase a game from the 'Gen-AI free' list, as opposed to buying nothing, which in turn rewards developers who don't use it, and doesn't affect Sony's figures.

They could even build this choice in to the promotional emails they send, ie excluding Gen-AI containing games from the emails they send on a regular basis, where the customer uses the filter.

If Sony are hellbent on an alll digital future, then they should be rolling out improvements to the current storefront now to get ahead of it. But they wont and we all know they wont.

Filters are better than outright removing and banning games, so yeah, that would be fine with me.

Yeah, but who's going to enforce the correct tagging by developers? They're prepared to wholesale rip off games that get even a sniff of success on Steam; does anyone really think they can be trusted to tick the "I used AI" box and give a disclosure?

Sony would rather not have to employ anyone to check and enforce rules around this, would be my bet.

@Czar_Khastik Sabotaged is the right word.
Big Sauna doesn’t want you finding inner peace, @Max_the_German.
Wake up, sheeple, and bring a towel.

@Balaam_
Agreed. At this point I don’t expect Sony to do anything remotely consumer friendly unless they were legally obligated to do so.

Sony has ignored all the pro-consumer moves Steam has implemented (like their fantastic return policy) why would start copying anything Steam does now?

Mind you, I would agree if the point here was way broader. Sony should copy Steam on most aspects of their store before even considering an all-digital future.