"SteamGPT" mentions in Valve's code flagged by online sleuth, sparking fears of an AI Steam chatbot that will screw up your support requests and hallucinate anti-cheat

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Subscribe to our newsletter Valve sleuth GabeFollower spotted and shared strings of mined Steam backend code that repeatedly mention "SteamGPT," and the very idea of a Steam riff on ChatGPT has been enough to ignite fears of AI's worst tendencies infecting the biggest store and platform in PC gaming.With no word from Valve, it does feel like this idea has quickly been exaggerated by an AI-wary internet.

SteamGPT appears in several lines of code shared by GabeFollower (who, it's worth pointing out, is not known for simply making things up), attached to phrases like "CreateTask_Request" and "CreateTask_Response" in one screenshot.There's a real risk of non-programmers misreading code here – assigning meaning and intent to simple labels, for instance – but the location and verbiage of this SteamGPT-adjacent code has not-unreasonably stoked theories about a new tool for Steam support issues ## Editor's Note What do you think about this news? Share your thoughts below! Source: [GamesRadar+](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/steamgpt-mentions-in-valves-code-flagged-by-online-sleuth-sparking-fears-of-an-ai-steam-chatbot-that-will-screw-up-your-support-requests-and-hallucinate-anti-cheat/)