Drunken Goddess Reflux Public Demo Canceled over AI Imitation Concerns

The extremely popular upcoming game "Drunken Goddess Reflux" (a.k.a. "Pukey Goddess Shot Trick") is cancelling their public demo plans over fears that AI will just allow someone to release a clone of their game before they are finished with the real thing.

Their Steam page announcement is here:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4150720/view/7460665...

The release style of games looks to change a lot in the near future. A lot of "shadow drop" sort of things, no Steam Next Fests (Steam's public demo festivals), a lot less experimental indie content and a lot more safe bets from big companies who have the technical expertise to do anti reverse engineering work.

(Unless perhaps a legislative response comes, so that AI-washing a program is definitively declared as creating a commercial derivative work and activating the harsh penalties for that in existing copyright law.)

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