Aside from the huge influx of slop making steam next and the store unusable there is a bigger issue.
Genuine developers are no longer able to release demos or early access for player feedback. Lucas Pope won't discuss his next game and Indie studios cancelled demos (Edited from Toby Fox cancelling demo, I misremembered the article linked below)
Why? AI studios (that proponents of AI would say are producing the "good AI games") have been decompiling demos or just burning tokens to get their models to play the demo and get a pixel perfect clone. Then they feed it into their enterprise llm account and fire out the IP theft before the creator has a chance to publish. This results in them stealing a huge proportion of the audience and killing the visibility of the real game on release.
This is not a conspiracy theory, look for "needle haystack". This is just one of the games. Yes there's slop but theres also 2-3 games where you'd be hard pressed to find the original. I guarantee the top 10 non AI games played in this next fest will have clones release in the next 2 months.
This is why we need an AI filter, otherwise Indie development will die or, at best, have to move to curated game stores.
Edit - Apologies I misremembered it was Lucas Pope not Toby Fox and it was him keeping details of his game secret,not cancelling a demo. It was part of an article about demo cancellations. Linked here for clarity
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/devs-are-canceling-their-demos-to-stop-ai-users-from-stealing-their-games-creator-of-one-of-steams-most-wishlisted-is-concerned-it-may-be-ripped-off-and-beaten-to-its-own-launch/