The Accidental Disclosure Trap: How Generative AI Can Void Your Patent Rights | Womble Bond Dickinson

The Accidental Disclosure Trap: How Generative AI Can Void Your Patent Rights | Womble Bond Dickinson

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The rise of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools has revolutionized the workflow of modern inventors. From drafting initial technical summaries to refining engineering prose, platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and specialized code generation models offer unprecedented productivity gains. However, this convenience hides a critical legal vulnerability. For unsuspecting innovators, feeding novel ideas into a generative…

New Report Reveals TikTok Leads Influencer Disclosure Compliance While YouTube Dominates Long-Term Brand Deals

New Report Reveals TikTok Leads Influencer Disclosure Compliance While YouTube Dominates Long-Term Brand Deals

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By Momo Messerschmidt Influencer and creator marketing is one of the top strategies brands are leveraging in 2026 to reach, engage, and convert consumers. Over 56% of Gen Z users consider influencer content more “relevant” than traditional television or film, and 41% of this generation use social media platforms as their primary search engine, showcasing how…

Steam revises AI policy while keeping generative content disclosure intact

Steam revises AI policy while keeping generative content disclosure intact

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New guidance draws a line between behind-the-scenes tools and content players see. Valve has quietly updated its AI disclosure guidance on Steam, tightening up the language around what developers do, and what they do not need to declare. The short version is this. Using AI-powered tools to speed up development is not the issue. Shipping…

Valve rewrite Steam’s GenAI disclosure rules to more explicitly allow AI-powered “efficiency” tools

Valve rewrite Steam’s GenAI disclosure rules to more explicitly allow AI-powered “efficiency” tools

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Valve have reportedly rewritten Steam’s AI disclosure form, essentially a declaration of a game’s generative AI usage that developers and publishers must complete to sell on the platform. The new form, shared by consultant Simon Carless, now specifies that while the presence of in-game GenAI content must still be divulged, including on the game’s store…

Valve changes AI disclosure guidelines, ‘AI powered tools’ are now exempt

Valve changes AI disclosure guidelines, ‘AI powered tools’ are now exempt

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TL;DR: Valve updated its Steam developer guidelines to require AI disclosure when generative AI is used to create game content, marketing materials, or in-game elements like images, audio, and text. Code-assisting AI tools do not require disclaimers, placing responsibility on players to assess AI content transparency. Valve has updated its guidelines for developers publishing on…

Steam Changed Its Gen AI Disclosure Requirements for Developers

Steam Changed Its Gen AI Disclosure Requirements for Developers

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Game Rant | Image Source: Steam and RedRuins Softworks With over 300 bylines for major publications including CNET, ZDNET, and CNBC Select, Evan is a senior journalist with extensive experience writing news, reviews, and features across gaming, tech, AI, personal finance, and cybersecurity. An avid player of RPGs, World of Warcraft, and story-driven games, he’s…

Steam updates AI disclosure form to specify that it’s focused on AI-generated content that is ‘consumed by players,’ not efficiency tools used behind the scenes

Steam updates AI disclosure form to specify that it’s focused on AI-generated content that is ‘consumed by players,’ not efficiency tools used behind the scenes

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Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney recently said digital storefronts like Steam should stop using AI disclosure labels because “AI will be involved in nearly all future production” anyway. PC Gamer’s Tyler Wilde disagreed (as do I), but he also noted that such disclosures can be tricky for developers: “Does it count if you used Photoshop’s…