AI and especially Gen AI should not even be a consideration at this point. The public at large, even outside of this creative space, have made their opinion on AI very clear, but if you insist on wasting untold amounts of money and destroying your reputation, the least you could do is make it optional and opt-in, with the default being turned off until manually turned on.

And no training data used without express and fully informed consent.

I suppose it wasn't awful enough that you kept tweaking the algo and the ads. It didn't annoy enough people that you refuse to optimize your site to where it doesn't use up so much of your GPU that low end users have to use a third party client to watch a stream. It wasn't nearly heartless enough to go about all the ways you make it harder for people to watch their favorite streamers.

Now we have to add blatant content theft to the list of reasons you clearly don't care about the streamers that built this platform.

I am absolutely disgusted that you keep insisting on doing this to your audience and creators. It's like you're addicted to bad PR or something.

Any form of AI, LLM, Chatbot, AI Training, etc needs to NEVER touch this platform. It is 100% stealing the hard work done by streamers, and is unacceptable. This is a surefire way to cause the platform to implode and never be used by anyone.

Twitch, training on the data produced by your LITERAL lifeblood of streamers creating their content will destroy the communities that make you money and also be a legal nightmare for you. your platform is primarily gameplay footage and sound- Do you think Nintendo alone won't come for your blood? Stupid move.

What would be the point of this, I feel like Twitch has enough problems let's not add AI to them as well.

The idea of my hard work, all the hours I spend trying to make entertainment and earn a decent wage just to keep the lights on, being fed into a machine whose owners openly brag of their contempt for me and everything I do and salivate at the idea of replacing me, revolts me to my core.

I have been streaming on Twitch for close to a decade. I have seen ups and downs, changes galore, suffered my fair share of indignities, and still kept my nose to the grindstone. If this goes through, it may be the first thing that makes me consider stopping my usage of Twitch entirely. My labor is mine, not yours or anyone else's.

Don't do this. It will not bring you the revenue you want, and the catastrophic backlash you will get (and indeed, already are getting) will harm both the platform and your bottom lines in ways that will not show up on any balance sheet you're looking at.

LinkedIn just added a "looks like AI slop" button for reporting. Data centers are protested on every corner. Read the room. Understand where this is going, instead of just throwing the platform and its reputation onto the funeral pyre of one of the most fraudulent speculation bubbles in history. It's not too late to turn back.

So instead of things like rolling out transcoding to more streamers, enabling AV1 or other codec ingests, all sorts of actual quality of life improvements for streamers, we get "shove the stream so far into a bot that will occasionally fail at doing its job, which is to summarize streams." Streamers already will respond to "What's happened?" with, y'know, what's happened. Or it's just not relevant information at all. Not only should this be opt-out by default and optional for everyone, it genuinely should not be a feature at all. This will take an excessive amount of compute power to handle every streamer that uses it (everyone, if Twitch chooses to enable it by default), it will be inaccurate at times, and the money spent on this could be better spent on other QoL improvements that are *already being rolled out*, like 1440p access and dual-layout.

I go to twitch to watch people who are really good at games.

I do not go to twitch to watch generated content.

This is vile, and training ai models off peoples proprietary work and effort is bottom of the barrel scum behavior. Amazon and ai are going to doom us all by exploiting the planet and people and this is willful aiding and abetting

This is literally insane - AI is trash and whoever thought of this should be fired.

I do not want AI touching anything remotely near my channel, the very least should be making this opt-out, and the feature frankly should not exist in the first place.

please do not add any form of AI, genAI, LLM, Chatbot, AI training etc to any part of Twitch, especially the streams themselves. not only will that be stealing from the streamers, and without consent, but it would also be stealing from the companies which make the games or other media which are streamed. none of us asked for AI features. we do not want them. do not add them.

This idea is rife for abuse, and would drive so many creators and viewers away to boot. If any AI features are implemented they must be optional and must be opted into rather than people needing to jump through hoops to opt out.

I do not want AI to be used at all in the creation of streams or any or creative activity, do not go through with this as no one genuinely wants to see their favorite streamer being used for slop content.

Forcing opt in is 100% scummy, and will alienate your creators. They will move to another platform. This will cause you, Twitch, to lose more money than the money you would make off selling peoples' data. If you do force an opt in, you better give the creators a 60% cut of the profits you make from the AI Scraping, or you're just plagiarizing with zero care about your content creators.

Going full-throttle on AI, especially required or opt-in by default, will cause a huge loss in your customer base. AI content elicits an indifferent response at best and outward hatred and avoidance at worst in a large majority of consumers, and you WILL lose a large amount of your consumer base and talent in favor for the next platform that promises to protect their art, content, and personality from being stolen en masse on their platform. Please, do not hop on to the already popping bubble of AI and ruining your platform that has built up a dream for many creators who choose to use it every day and provided comfort for those who watch their favorite creators on it.

No one who makes content on your platform wants this. I've been streaming on twitch for six years and the thought of all of my hard work being forced into some GenAI slop machine makes me want to throw up.

This is absolutely insane behavior. There is no world where I would ever want Twitch training their AI on me any creators I support. If this feature is implimented I will never use your platform or consume the content of anyone on this site ever again.

Don't, just don't.

Cut it the **** out! Creators create using creativity, not garbage slop that steals from others and actively harms our environment and the minds of people. This shouldn't even be an option. It simply should not exist on this platform or any platform. CUT. IT. OUT.

Generative AI needs to be kept out of the streaming system - it wastes enormous amounts of energy and is inaccurate so often that it's functionally useless. Do NOT push these features to live, and do NOT say you'll reconsider only to quietly push them out anyway once the dust settles. If your shareholders insist because they're trying to squeeze every last drop of profit out before the bubble inevitably pops, then creators and viewers should be opted OUT by default, not IN.