At an event for indie game developers in Korea, Valve representatives gave advice on how to cope with the deluge of AI slop pouring onto Steam, and especially a new spate of threatening communications sent to indie developers telling them their games will be cloned unless they pay a ransom. The responses, while useful for a few, were perhaps more than a little tone deaf to the realities of independent development.

As reported by Inven Global , Valve’s Tom Giardino and Marc Wilkinson attended Steam Indie Connect on October 27 to speak to developers about the current state of Steam.…