It seems that Valve is working on a "SteamGPT" feature that will apparently deal with Steam support issues and is somehow connected to Trust Score and CS2 anti-cheat?
There’s the directory with the file in the screenshots, service_steamgpt.proto, updated 4 days ago along with a number of others, seems like it and a whole batch of related files did not exist before then.
I am uncertain if this … basically scraping operation is tracking the main Steam client or the Beta or what.
There is not a very helpful description of what exactly is being pulled here, in the readme/project description.
EDIT:
Perhaps if you are more familiar with Protobufs, you can take a gander at these and come away with a guesstimate as to what these are doing?
My guess is that this is part of some kind of machine learning pipeline, where users label edge cases to help train the model. Since it operates on account data, match data, and logs (see CSteamGPT_GetTask_Response), an anti-cheat use case would make sense, but it’s hard to say for sure.
This looks like data exchanged between the Steam client and server, and doesn’t contain any logic on its own.
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That’s because it’s a Protobuf file. Has nothing to do with prototypes.
Well you got me there.
https://github.com/SteamTracking/SteamTracking/tree/master/ProtobufsWebui
There’s the directory with the file in the screenshots, service_steamgpt.proto, updated 4 days ago along with a number of others, seems like it and a whole batch of related files did not exist before then.
I am uncertain if this … basically scraping operation is tracking the main Steam client or the Beta or what.
There is not a very helpful description of what exactly is being pulled here, in the readme/project description.
EDIT:
Perhaps if you are more familiar with Protobufs, you can take a gander at these and come away with a guesstimate as to what these are doing?
My guess is that this is part of some kind of machine learning pipeline, where users label edge cases to help train the model. Since it operates on account data, match data, and logs (see
CSteamGPT_GetTask_Response), an anti-cheat use case would make sense, but it’s hard to say for sure.This looks like data exchanged between the Steam client and server, and doesn’t contain any logic on its own.