AI Review Summaries

[Flinsberg]

I think it would be cool to have something akin to YouTube's live chat summaries. Instead of reading through each and every review, you get a small paragraph summarizing how people feel about a game. You can either activate it by clicking on a small icon somewhere in the review section, or have it as an insert note right above the section.

EXAMPLE #1
"Players are happy with the gameplay and level design. They say the combat is responsive and engaging. However, some have expressed their dissatisfaction with the ending and how shallow some of the characters felt."

EXAMPLE #2
"Players expressed how emotional the ending made them feel. They comment on how relatable the story is and how much they liked the main character. However, some have experienced mild performance issues and warn others to check the game's minimum PC requirements."

EDIT: To avoid any further confusion, I'd like to clarify some things. I don't want to replace reviews (obviously). The AI summary is optional and you can turn it on/off in the settings. Additionally, even when you have it on it wouldn't replace the review section; it will merely appear above it.

[Gwarsbane]

No, don't want anything to do with AI on Steam. If you can't be bothered to read a review, then go find different ones that are smaller.

The "summary" is already there, if its positive or not is already on every single page. Want more details, read the reviews.


Ai is NOWHERE near the point it should be used for anything that isn't double checked by a human afterward, specially on a store. They hallucinate too easily, making up stuff and being wrong all the time.

[Sir Seanicus, Esq.]

AI already moderates the forums...so why stop there?

Thanks for agreeing with me and giving me points, le kind stranger ecksdee.

[peppermint hollows]

No thanks.

[Sasori Kigaru]

On paper it sounds okay assuming everything went perfectly. But nothing is ever perfect and I just foresee a mess of AI Review summaries being influenced by the vast amount of meme reviews that can occur in some games.

Plus I prefer the human element of a review/summary.

[Stormer]

that sounds horrific

[BJWyler]

AI is far too lacking at this point for bloating Steam even further, especially when one considers ALL the nonsense reviews that do not get removed.

[Yzal]

Originally posted by ardenfae:

AI

No.

[Start_Running]

Never found those AI summaries to be worth a damn for entertainment products because it can only ever summarize what the majority are saying.

[Flinsberg]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Never found those AI summaries to be worth a damn for entertainment products because it can only ever summarize what the majority are saying.

Which is why I structured my examples the way I did. The first 1-3 sentences express what the majority of players think. After that, it also acknowledges some of the concerns a small portion of players is having.

"Most players think X. However, some mentioned Y."

[Flinsberg]

Originally posted by Yzal:

Originally posted by ardenfae:

AI

No.

Steam has over 50K games on its platform. A manual summary for each and every one of them would simply be impossible.

I also don't understand where all this hostility toward AI is coming from. Why are you so against it? (a constructive answer would be appreciated)

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by ardenfae:

Originally posted by Yzal:

No.

Steam has over 50K games on its platform. A manual summary for each and every one of them would simply be impossible.

I also don't understand where all this hostility toward AI is coming from. Why are you so against it? (a constructive answer would be appreciated)

People think AI can do it all and that its the answer to everything. They don't bother to see all the problems with it right now. They only see the few ok things its been able to do, they don't see the 1000+ tries to get to that point and the 1000+ times after that they were not able to duplicate it.

Heck we're not even looking at actual AI, people who don't know, call everything they are seeing AI, its not. Its a large language model.

It sees what you say, then looks at the words and tries to figure out what you want depending on the words you've used.

The LLM is only as good as the programming is and the data sets that they are designed to use and there is nothing right now that is perfectly programmed including the data sets. Everything has bugs and errors in the code. Some of those bugs and errors are never noticed, but some build up over time and get worse and worse.

Again people keep thinking AI can solve everything right now when the programmers can't even figure out why their LLMs are hallucinating.

[LORDKAOS ☣]

no thanks

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by Sir Seanicus, Esq.:

AI already moderates the forums...so why stop there?

An AI would be consistent.

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

The LLM is only as good as the programming is and the data sets that they are designed to use and there is nothing right now that is perfectly programmed including the data sets.

Imagine taking Steam reviews to train a LLM... Burning the rainforest to generate the energy to have an algorythm say that the summary of a game reviews is an ASCII picture of Sanic.

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

The LLM is only as good as the programming is and the data sets that they are designed to use and there is nothing right now that is perfectly programmed including the data sets.

Imagine taking Steam reviews to train a LLM... Burning the rainforest to generate the energy to have an algorythm say that the summary of a game reviews is an ASCII picture of Sanic.

lol ya.

[MonkehMaster]

No thanks, no AI needed anywhere on steam or anywhere else.