Steam needs to crackdown on AI generated reviews

[Caspy]

I’ve seen so many obviously AI generated reviews for multiple games. As they’re generated by AI and typically lack understanding of the game or anecdotal experience, they’re often useless and are nothing more than spam. Why doesnt Steam remove these reviews?

[✨Saint✨]

You know, there used to be people who were posting cooking reciepes instead of reviews, reviews that were completely void of any interesting material.
Overall, it can take up to an hour for me to make a review sometimes, but I rather see AI generated reviews instead of spam.

[crunchyfrog]

How would they? They aren't magicians?

HOw would YOU detect AI reviews? And by detect I DO NOT mean suspect.

Because many people will look at something and THINK it looks like it, but it might not be. I've seen many a thing already be accused but was actually a genuine thing just run through translation.

So think about it - how could Valve develop some magic software that reliably magically detect AI reviews? It can't, or they'd have already done something for spam etc.

All you can do is do your bit as the community - report stuff that flouts the rules.

[HereIsPlenty]

I am more bothered by reviews that post an image, ones that are copy/paste of each other, ones that start with "I owe this game my life, etc" to name but a few. Some people do waffle on but you read a paragraph or two and sometimes just move on from them. Plenty of folks work hard at their reviews to make the experience of reading them worthwhile.

[Thiesen]

"evERyTHinG tHAt dOeSn'T cONfOrM tO MY oPinIoNS iS ai"...

[pckirk]

report and move on. No need to make a thread about it in the steam sub-forum.

[Crazy Tiger]

I do have to question how OP thinks it's obvious.

Any examples, OP?

[MonkehMaster]

ai reviews, asci spam, meme spam, 1-2 word/symbol/number spam, blank reviews, even mashing keys spam, food recipe spam and w/e else i missed.

in general steam reviews have been turned into garbage, mostly due to reward points, though there was spam before then, just not as bad.

valve simply wont remove the spam even when it breaks the rules (though ai isnt in the rules... yet?).

only ever seen reported reviews removed due to foul language.

[Crazy Tiger]

They also remove spam reviews, just takes a while. Most of the ones I reported have been banned.

And when links are in them. Those are handled quickly.

[Caspy]

Początkowo opublikowane przez crunchyfrog:

How would they? They aren't magicians?

HOw would YOU detect AI reviews? And by detect I DO NOT mean suspect.

Because many people will look at something and THINK it looks like it, but it might not be. I've seen many a thing already be accused but was actually a genuine thing just run through translation.

So think about it - how could Valve develop some magic software that reliably magically detect AI reviews? It can't, or they'd have already done something for spam etc.

All you can do is do your bit as the community - report stuff that flouts the rules.

You underestimate how easy it is to tell if something is AI.

[Caspy]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Thiesen:

"evERyTHinG tHAt dOeSn'T cONfOrM tO MY oPinIoNS iS ai"...

Do you ever think before you type meaningless garbage? I know it’s AI because it follows the exact same structure that a prompt asking for a video game review would follow.

[Caspy]

Początkowo opublikowane przez ✨Saint✨:

You know, there used to be people who were posting cooking reciepes instead of reviews, reviews that were completely void of any interesting material.
Overall, it can take up to an hour for me to make a review sometimes, but I rather see AI generated reviews instead of spam.
:saint:

I miss those pie recipes

[Princess Luna]

Seeming that you avoiding the direct question "HOw would YOU detect AI reviews? And by detect I DO NOT mean suspect." with "You underestimate how easy it is to tell if something is AI." telling me you have no idea what are you talking about and jsut want awards or want to feel self-important. Please come back later

[miakisfan]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Caspy:

I’ve seen so many obviously AI generated reviews for multiple games. As they’re generated by AI and typically lack understanding of the game or anecdotal experience, they’re often useless and are nothing more than spam. Why doesnt Steam remove these reviews?

Or you could just ignore them and decide for yourself.

If the game has a demo play it and decide whether or not it is worth spending your money on.

Voting with your wallet will always be the ultimate way to show developers if their game is worth buying.

[Caspy]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Princess Luna:

Seeming that you avoiding the direct question "HOw would YOU detect AI reviews? And by detect I DO NOT mean suspect." with "You underestimate how easy it is to tell if something is AI." telling me you have no idea what are you talking about and jsut want awards or want to feel self-important. Please come back later

Yes, it's incredibly easy to tell if somebody is using AI for their reviews. They all follow the same structure, use the same sort of "inhuman" language and sentence structure, and the people who generate these reviews rarely ever humanise what ChatGPT made for them, making it easy to put it through an AI detector.

[Caspy]

Początkowo opublikowane przez miakisfan:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Caspy:

I’ve seen so many obviously AI generated reviews for multiple games. As they’re generated by AI and typically lack understanding of the game or anecdotal experience, they’re often useless and are nothing more than spam. Why doesnt Steam remove these reviews?

Or you could just ignore them and decide for yourself.

If the game has a demo play it and decide whether or not it is worth spending your money on.

Voting with your wallet will always be the ultimate way to show developers if their game is worth buying.

Reviews aren't for developers. They're for the consumer.