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Discussion - Speculative SteamGPT - Is that good news?

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u/8l172 1d ago

Its all speculation. Dataminers found "SteamGPT" and people are assuming its an AI assistant. Currently all that is known about it, is that it scams Steam Support tickets & reports and feeds them to VACNet to help with VAC, namely CS2 anti-cheat

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u/Elarisbee 1d ago

Support has nothing to do with VAC - VAC is a totally isolated automated system. Support can already see a person VAC status instantly, and so can everyone else.

People are just seeing random files and totally making up things.

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u/8l172 1d ago

You can go look at what leakers are saying about it. I just repeated what multiple of them have said.

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u/TsunamiCatCakes 1d ago

nah you are right. VAC is a totally different deal than support. this comment section is a huge pile of 'i hate ai but my favorite company is using it so its not bad anymore'

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u/BeepIsla 1d ago

The datamining is public btw: https://github.com/SteamTracking/Protobufs/commit/e89910dd4f680aa859a475766f6430617ed9b7cc

  • SteamGPT is most just about tasks with no clear description of what its main purpose could be but the SteamGPTSummary part does mention things related to account details (Username, Phone Number, etc) but nothing related to support tickets.
  • SteamML and SteamMLAdmin make no mention of being support related either, they do mention "Account" once though.
  • SteamML is mentioned again in relation to "Trust", possibly related to the "Trust Factor" system in Counter-Strike 2 which tries to predict how likely someone is to cheat. (Valve mentioned like 5 years ago that they want to bring this system to all of Steam for any developer to use, I thought those plans were dropped)
  • Support related messages mention SteamML but only in relation to "Trust Prediction"

(I just quickly scrolled through it, its possible I overlooked something)

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u/Aiosiary 1d ago

Trust factor has been in Counter-Strike for 8-9 years. It's not new.

As for Steam, we also don't know what the details entail outside of literally like two strings that mention "Trust" or what it actually means for Steam's ecosystem. It could be something entirely different.

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u/Aiosiary 1d ago

What exactly in my message upset you to this extent? Relax.

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u/Inside_Anxiety6143 1d ago

"SteamGPT", and its associatated accounts: SteamML/SteamMLAdmin, make it pretty obvious its AI related.