Valve rumoured to be working on 'SteamGPT' AI bot for support and anti-cheat functions

3 weeks ago 20

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Is there nothing sacred? Are all things destined to be consumed by AI slop? Apparently so, for now even Valve is turning to the artificial side with reports of references to "SteamGPT" appearing in the company's source code. The end, verily, is nigh, no doubt courtesy of life imitating Valve's murderously passive-aggressive Portal game art.

In all seriousness, fair to say Valve has hitherto been one of the least AI-adjacent tech outfits since the whole LLM-transformer-chatbot-video-generation-agentic-overlord thing really took off in the last few years. So, this would be at least something of a pivot.

First up, X poster @gabefollower spotted references to SteamGPT in various Steam-related code. There are multiple entries that appear to be related to a wide range of tasks, from task queues and code testing, to account management and security.

There are also references relating to Valve’s Trust systems including, Read Entire Article