When Facepunch Studios’ s&box , the game creation platform touted as a spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod , launched on Steam at the end of April, it immediately earned itself a “Mixed” rating on the platform , with roughly 45 percent of its reviews being positive. Reviewers mostly took issue with the overwhelming prevalence of user-generated AI-slop that littered the game’s discovery tab, a practice that Facepunch Studios is now “actively discouraging” with the release of s&box’s latest update. Releasing a UGC game like s&box in the age of AI-generated tomfoolery was always going to be an uphill battle, but, based on the Facepunch Studios’ numerous disparaging comments about its usage over the past two weeks, it’s clear that even the devs have been somewhat blindsided by the never-ending torrent of slop that’s making its way into the game.…