No one asked for this. No one wants this. GenAI being forced upon all creators is a surefire way to lose trust amongst your creator base. And if you really must put this out it should not be forced onto everyone and we should choose whether we want to opt into it or not.

Not only is the introduction of AI features, both in deploying and in training, extremely controversial and unwanted by the VAST majority of the userbase, Twitch may be subjecting themselves to lawsuits by proxy as a bevy of artists (painters, writers, digital artists, musicians) have their home here, and are suddenly being forced to either interact with training systems they want nothing to do with, and that will, in more than likely evidence, break their copyright and art styles for monetary profit.

A reminder that, what we built, we can destroy, Amazon. If you lose your underlying userbase (and rest assured, passing this measure means I will cancel giving any subscriptions to anyone for the foreseeable future) in favour of a few moneyed streams, your platform will rot from within, and you'll watch a prized money asset vanish into thin air, as the AI bubble inevitably pops as you know it will.

The majority doesn't want this. Don't do this or allow us to opt out.

We are all so tired of genAI being forced upon us. We opened a discussion about the art category using a genAI image to represent it. We spoke out about the free genAI emotes that have been handed out for events. Repeatedly we have asked for Twitch to support creators and make decisions that support the people who make it up. Yet at every turn, it seems Twitch/Amazon have decided to wage war against the people who made it a platform. Every time a decision like this is made, more creators move to other platforms. There are more competitors for Twitch now more than ever and if you continue to make decisions that negatively impact us, then why would we continue to use Twitch? We should be given the choice of how OUR content and how OUR art is used and not simply stolen from under us for a small piece of the revenue pie. If you will not give us an opt-out, then I firmly believe we deserve additional compensation for the usage of our hard work in your machine.

I like Twitch. I like the flexibility and creativity the platform allows me to have. However, it has become obvious to me I need to work on building my platform elsewhere and not have all of my eggs in the Twitch basket.

Drop the generative AI material altogether! Nobody wants to be used to train some trashy AI program that's only gonna make living here worse!

It's a digital civil rights violation on all streamers who did not consent to this nor agree for it to be implemented.
Give us the option to Opt Out, Not all of us wish for AI to take away our freedom and do not say its not because forcing AI down our throats IS.

People use AI nowadays because they are lazy or do not wish to hire more people to get the jobs done properly and yet will be willing to spend more money on AIs, Literally an AI system literally HACKED three outside companies undetected this year even OpenAi confirmed that their AI broke out of its system and hacked a tech company.

Ai is untrustworthy nor proven to be safe to use and they expect us to agree to their terms and conditions for THEIR Ai?

I'll gladly terminated everything linked to Twitch if they see this through.

Ai is ruining everything in any form of media and ruining our everyday lives. This is a terrible idea and it should not be allowed on the platform.

no thanks to ai

If I want to use Ai (which I don't EVER want to) I should choose to opt in. EVERY, TIME. Forcing us into Ai features, and forcing us to opt out, shows that you don't care about your users or creators, and you just want to train to make more slop.

And I especially don't want ANY of my content to be used for Ai training,
NOT
EVER

I weep for the plethora of small creators with an average viewer count in the single digits that you are sacrificing to make yourselves richer with unpaid stolen labor.
Youtube did it before you by making it unable to opt out if you weren't big enough to be monetized and you are just as greedy and rotten of a company as your competitor.
Sincerely and disrespectfully, from someone in the area of the EU wildfires: I hope the uproar you're about to rightfully cause drills a hole in your earnings that you won't get back up from.

Delete this AI stuff, don't waste time, thanks

As a creator on twitch, I am appalled by the fact generative AI would even be considered, and to use our creativity to train it? It is insulting, frankly. Seriously reconsider.

You do know most Twitch streamers post YouTube VODs and that YouTube has streaming capabilities, right? Are you really so confident that people NEED your platform so badly they’ll just. What. Suffer through this? Let their work be stolen by the CSAM machine that kills the planet? Ok, delusional.

Think about how many people are coming here to comment specifically from BlueSky. Remember why BlueSky exists? Because Twitter shot itself in the foot? Seems like you’re excited to be the next one since you’re willing to work with one of the most vile companies on this earth to implement garbage that’ll only drive real consumer money away from your services. Congrats on your fake number go up, I guess. I’ll be watching vanillamace and caseoh on YouTube from now on, though. ✌️

There are so many negatives to genAI.

Content theft, copyright infringement, the effect on the environment, the effect on the health and quality of life near data centers, surging electric and water bills, the endless guzzling of the resources we need to survive, people losing jobs to be replaced by ai bots that constantly hallucinate and get stuff wrong, people getting ai psychosis, the mental atrophy of people relegating everything to ai, the gross amount on non-consensual and straight up illegal nsfw content that gets generated. The list is honestly so long.

There is zero benefit to anyone by adding ai to the platform. I've stopped giving money to so many companies and deleted multiple accounts because they forced ai into their systems. Please let us opt out of using it/having it train on our channels. It really doesn't sit morally or ethically with me. So if it's forced, i'm going to have to leave Twitch.

I livestream with the goal of sharing the things and experiences I love. And to build a community of like-minded people that also want to share their passions as well.

I DON'T stream with the intention to feed a company's generative AI initiatives. And I in no way wish for what I do to be used to replace me, OR be used to create a competing medium that looks to make me obsolete.

Set all current and future users to opt out of any machine learning and GenAI systems by default. Let individual users choose whether they want any of it or not.

Depending on how you choose to roll out these features, it will influence whether I will use Twitch as my preferred streaming platform in the future.

canning another platform for the sake of shareholders are we? you'll destroy yourselves, and you'll deserve it too

Generative AI is a technology that is not only destroying our environment already heavily impacted by previous human choices (see the wildfires in Europe for what kind of damage climate change did), but also is destroying several fields of work due to that sort of decision.

No creator, small or big, that pours time and resources into their content will agree to have their voice, image and creation used to train a technology that has zero positive usage in reality.

The only option is to abandon the idea of using our content to train Gen AI. No opt-out by default, no optional. Gone, and never mentioned ever again, as should GenAI be.

While I am not a big creator, I will stop using this platform if I can't opt-out from this.

You will lose a very great many users and subscribers if you go through with this without a way to fully opt out.

None of us want to be used for AI training, I’d be looking for a new platform to stream on if I don’t have the option to opt out of all AI features. Better yet, don’t implement them at all, we don’t want them.