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Itch Is Being Flooded By AI-Generated Garbage - Aftermath
Publisher description: 'The number of game pages being created per-day has doubled in the past 2 months'
NewsAPI | Nov 1, 2026 | Luke Plunkett
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Back in 2024, when the spectre of AI-'created' video games was still in its infancy, indie platform itch.io decided that the best it could do to combat this growing threat was, like Valve has done with Steam, institute a voluntary 'AI' filter when adding new projects to the site. By November 2026, as itch buckles under the weight of new AI-generated 'games' pouring onto the site, that filter is proving about as robust as a wet paper bag.
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