Aftermath says itch's AI filter is failing to curb the flood
2 Nov 1 6:53 PM · 6d ago · 2 posts · 2 sources · development 2 of 2
Aftermath.site argued itch.io's voluntary AI tag is ineffective, citing a visit to the site's latest-releases section still full of unflagged AI-generated titles, and questioned whether stronger human moderation like some propose for Steam is feasible for a small, community-run platform like itch.
“Shopfronts are being deluged by this shit, and it's making it a terrible user experience for customers.”
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 6 claims were published in its stretch
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first by Eurogamer, 5d ago · also IGN, IGN Pakistan, Engadget
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first by Video Games Chronicle, 6d ago · also BigGo Finance
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- Itch.io Purges Terabytes of AI Slop, Rolls Out 'No AI' Search Filter BigGo Finance · 4d ago
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first by Mastodon, 5d ago · also Kotaku
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first by https://tech-insider.org/, 6d ago
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- Itch.io AI Games: Daily Pages Double to 6,000+ [2026] shattered.io · 6d ago
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first by Polygon.com, 6d ago · also Polygon
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first by Polygon, 5d ago
What people said 7 voices · verbatim
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casual reminder that itch already implements a no-AI tag you can filter searches by, which is a thousand times more than steam currently does.
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The economic output of LLMs will, in the end, amount to the cost of producing, storing, and trying to weed out immense quantities of useless slop. https:// kotaku.com/itch-io-gen-ai-slop -terrabytes-deleted-claude-chagpt-steam-epic-2000752485
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"The number of game pages being created per-day has doubled in the past 2 months" Itch is being flooded by AI-generated garbage:
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itch.io deletes terabytes of AI slop and adds search filter https://www. heise.de/en/news/itch-io-delet es-terabytes-of-AI-slop-and-adds-search-filter-11510931.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into heise online international @ heise-online-international-heiseonline
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One Itch that's defintely getting scratched One Popular PC Game Storefront Has Had Enough Of AI Slop, And It's Taking Action https://www. gamespot.com/articles/one-popu lar-pc-game-storefront-has-had-enough-of-ai-slop-and-its-taking-action/ # Itch # Storefront # PC # Indie # AI # Gaming
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One Popular PC Game Storefront Has Had Enough Of AI Slop, And It's Taking Action https://www. gamespot.com/articles/one-popu lar-pc-game-storefront-has-had-enough-of-ai-slop-and-its-taking-action/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into All Stories @ all-stories-Gamespot
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Of course these AI losers can't stay in their own slop stores. Itch Is Being Flooded By AI-Generated Garbage https:// aftermath.site/itch-ai-games-p c-slop/ # FuckAI
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