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Nineteen IGF jurors will not vote for generative-AI games

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Nineteen Independent Games Festival jurors say they will not vote for games that use generative AI after House House's Big Walk disclosure.

House House, developer of Big Walk, said it used an LLM chatbot sparingly late in development to work through a Unity bug that produced infinite-length shadows. The studio said the suggestion was heavily modified into about 10 lines, well under 0.1% of the code, and disclosed that use to the Independent Games Festival, not on Steam, because Valve does not require chatbot-use disclosure. Nineteen of more than 50 IGF jurors signed a statement declining to vote for any game using generative AI and urging a ban on AI-generated work. The statement does not speak for IGF or every juror; signers include Sam Barlow and Lena Raine. House House said it lacked an AI policy then and will adopt a more comprehensive one.

Key facts
  • Nineteen of more than 50 IGF jurors signed the no-vote statement.
  • LLM-related code was about 10 lines, well under 0.1% of Big Walk.
  • Use addressed a Unity bug causing infinite-length shadows.
  • Disclosed to IGF; Valve does not require chatbot-use disclosure.
  • Signers include Sam Barlow and Celeste composer Lena Raine.
  • House House said it will adopt a more comprehensive AI policy.
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beyond the shared facts
  • The VergeNames signers and says the statement is not IGF's official position.
  • Ars TechnicaGives the 19-of-50-plus count, Unity shadow bug, and about 10 lines.
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  1. · 1d ago The Verge · AIFirst report

    IGF jurors reject generative-AI games after Big Walk disclosure

    House House says well under 0.1% of Big Walk's code started from LLM snippets used to debug third-party issues.

  2. · 3h ago Ars Technica · AI

    House House says an LLM helped fix a Big Walk bug

    Nineteen IGF jurors say they will not vote for any game that uses generative AI after the disclosure.