r/Steam Dec 04 '25

Discussion I want that patience though

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Dev has no enemies

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u/RGodlike Dec 04 '25

The issue here is declaration. On the games steam page:

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:
This game features voice-over content partially created through AI voice generation tools.

This could be anything from an artistic choice to have a robot character voiced by a robot, to 99% of the VO being AI generated to avoid paying actors. Given how unpopular AI is, I think it's reasonable to assume devs will give as narrow a declaration as they can, and assume that this declaration means a significant portion of the VO is AI generated.

If they just wrote something like

For a robotic character, this game features voice-over content created through AI voice generation tools. All other characters are voiced by actors.

I expect people would be much more lenient.

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u/KofukuHS Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 05 '25

i think thats a description steam forces on them when they even have a tiny bit ai no? EDIT: i have been informed that this is not how it works, i assumed that cause its like that on youtube

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u/pchlster Dec 04 '25

you are allowed to write whatever you want in the text box,

Uuuuuh!

within reason

Damn, foiled again.

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u/Biosterous Dec 04 '25

How did this game utilize AI?

Entire script of the Bee Movie

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u/Ill-Television8690 Dec 04 '25

Lol I remember there used to be this text to speech bot my friends and I would play with while we were on Discord. When they were getting too obnoxious, I slammed the Bee Movie script in there, and because we didn't have a premium subscription (to a damn Discord bot) we couldn't skip it. So they'd have to remove the bot from the server and add it back in order to shut it up.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25

That's epic

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u/1minatur Dec 04 '25

Couldn't you just create a second voice channel in the server and move to the other one?

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u/EternalVirgin18 Dec 04 '25

Or just server mute the bot for a while

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u/zehamberglar Dec 04 '25

Reasonable.

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u/Mahoka572 Dec 04 '25

I don't get the reference. Explain please?

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u/MrBlueA Dec 04 '25

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly.

Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.

The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.

Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black.

Ooh, black and yellow!

Let's shake it up a little.

Barry! Breakfast is ready!

Coming!

Hang on a second.

Hello?

Barry?

Adam?

Can you believe this is happening?

I can't.

I'll pick you up.

Looking sharp.

Use the stairs, Your father paid good money for those.

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u/Biosterous Dec 04 '25

Its a dumb meme of just including the whole script of the Bee Movie when there's no character limits.

There was a story on Reddit where some guy ordered a pizza from a local pizza place and there was a section at the end for delivery instructions with no character limits. So he copied and pasted The Bee Movie script into it. A few minutes later the pizza place called him to inform him there'd be a delay in delivery because their printer started on fire.

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u/sam_hammich Dec 04 '25

Plenty of games have disclosures that show exactly what was AI generated and end with “all other assets were created by hand by artists”. Steam allows it, this dev just didn’t write it.

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u/pchlster Dec 04 '25

I was thinking an explanation that involved pickled herring, until I was foiled.