s&box's New Update Punishes AI Slop Content By Ranking It Lower To Discourage Users From 'Making Everything Look Like The Same Sh*t' - Kotaku

"Our moderators can now mark packages as having AI thumbnails, which will reduce their prevalence in lists and searches. I can understand why people would want to use AI to generate these thumbs, since it makes generating them easy and fast, it does have the massive downside of making everything look like the same shit. So we're actively discouraging it."

"When Facepunch Studios' , the game creation platform touted as a spiritual successor to Garry's Mod , launched on Steam at the end of April, it immediately earned itself a "Mixed" rating on the platform , with roughly 45 percent of its reviews being positive. Reviewers mostly took issue with the overwhelming prevalence of user-generated AI-slop that littered the game's discovery tab, a practice that Facepunch Studios is now "actively discouraging" with the release of latest update."

"Releasing a UGC game like in the age of AI-generated tomfoolery was always going to be an uphill battle, but, based on the Facepunch Studios' numerous disparaging comments about its usage over the past two weeks, it's clear that even the devs have been somewhat blindsided by the never-ending torrent of slop that's making its way into the game. Update 26.05.13 is a clear step towards tackling the issue, however, as Garry Newman stated that the team has now implemented several new tools that will help "identify and discourage the AI Slop.""

Facepunch Studios launched a UGC game on Steam and received a “Mixed” rating, with about 45% of reviews positive. Reviewers criticized the discovery tab being filled with user-generated AI content. Facepunch Studios responded by actively discouraging AI slop through a new update. Update 26.05.13 introduced tools to identify and discourage AI slop. Garry Newman said moderators can mark packages as having AI thumbnails, which reduces their prevalence in lists and searches. He noted that AI thumbnails are easy and fast to generate but make many items look the same. The approach focuses on discouragement rather than outright banning.

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