PC Gamer reports: The Australian STEM Videogame Challenge, a "free national videogame development competition for students," has confirmed that the rise of generative AI means this year's event will be the last... Speculation as to the cause of the program's cancellation focused primarily on the presence of AI in entries: Another self-proclaimed judge said the problem wasn't merely the use of AI in itself but that "some students just completely generate their games with AI...." [T]he Australian Council for Educational Research has confirmed that the cancellation was in fact due to AI.... "making it harder to judge what students made themselves, and moving the program away from its original purpose." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader neoRUR for sharing the news.

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