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AI-generated reviews on Steam are becoming a problem (gamesbeat.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

i mean with the review in question its a red flag given the playtime is shown.

steam at least give you some tools to consider if a review is legit. one is the users play time (which is public), another is other reviews theyve made. another is if theyve gotten the key for free.

[–] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The main problem is that those reviews are still included in the overall review score. I think you can filter out low play time but that's an extra step most won't take (because they shouldn't need to)

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

People who review games poorly are unlikely to play them for long though. How would you filter them as not to drop most legit negative reviews?

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

would you prefer the platform police it and run into the problem that the google play store/ios app store has about vote manipulation? and purging several reviews (whether legitamate or not)

[–] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Steam already does stuff similar to this? Reviews flagged as "suspicious" aren't deleted but aren't included in the overall score instead, and a notice is put next to the overall score when this happens. The same is true for reviews made by people who got the game with a key.

Why not extend this? Like you said, most bots have low play time, valve could exclude (but not delete) reviews with low play time. I agree that doing something like this is a slippery slope towards mobile app store reviews but if it's done right then it is a net positive.