i hope this is the turning point for a lot of streamers to find alternatives because i am more than ready to jump ship

I wish there weren't any AI features at all, but if you're going to force them onto the platform they should be fully optional and shouldn't be snuck into the defaults as if that's normal behavior. Very shifty and suspicious. Have been thinking of deleting my twitch account with all these terrible AI drama.

Congratulations, Twitch, on not listening AGAIN AND PUTTING IN SOMETHING WE DIDN'T WANT >:(

Honestly don't know what the point is of having a User Voice if the folks up top aren't going to address concerns and just quietly release an update that has this Opt In by Default. Deeply unhappy with this choice and frankly feel like voices aren't being listened to.

I think this will further push artists and creatives on twitch to seek alternatives. Also, this seems really bad in terms of the way it could be abused for creating fake streams of actual streamers, and whether the streamers have any veto rights on how their likeness is used.

What is even the point of this service if you're just going to ignore nearly 13 thousand creators and roll this out anyway? Y'all are actual clowns. Unbelievable.

Almost 13 thousand voices later, and Twitch still decided to turn AI-training on for all accounts, without any warning or notification. The only way many of us knew this happened was through others social media posts letting us know that this change went live.

This is unacceptable, to ignore such a large section of your user base, when we asked for one simple thing, 'let us choose if we want to let you train'. That's it. All you had to do was not turn it on for everyone. Instead you chose to ignore us, when most UserVoice posts get maybe 100 users to agree about something. We all showed up and showed out on the platform we're supposed to, in the way Twitch has told us to, to get ignored.

This is possibly the *worst* decision Twitch has ever made, and y'all need to seriously rethink this one. It's not too late to flip the switch back to 'off' for everyone, send out notifications that this happened, and attempt to garner back SOME goodwill from the community.

Because this? It's not a good look.

i hope you enjoy training on me saying how much i cannot stand AI for my ENTIRE stream <3

this is a violation of user rights and is an illegal offence. Twitch's userbase will only suffer as a result of this as loyal creators are forced to seek alternatives.

yk what i'm legit gonna pay my family members to cancel prime at this point

we get it you're the most evil company on the planet omfg

the fact that all accounts are opted in by default is further confirmation that Twitch/Amazon do not care, they do not listen. having this UserVoice system is utterly pointless. this is easily one of the highest voted requests and it has been straight up ignored.

Just say y'all hate us at that point. We get it, y'all are a trillion dollar company, it's your duty to shove in AI despite overwhelming opposition.

Wtf is the point of a uservoice if the voices of the users aren't even heard?! This is so disappointing

WHY HAVE YOU FORCED THIS THROUGH ALREADY??? This is EXPLICIT confirmation that this uservoice system is meaningless, that you do not care about us, and never will.

well, twitch tell us to delete our accounts if we send a request to Restrict Data Processing

so guess thats what we gotta do then. bye twitch

**** twitch and **** bezos

Setting AI features to be enabled by default without ANY kind of notification is straight up EVIL.
Do better.

I'm sorry, but the fact that even if *I* have opted out, if I chat in a channel that *has not*, MY chat can be used to train GenAI? HECK NO. If I opt out, I opt out. I don't want any of ME being used to help train GenAI.

Letting us opt out of only training isn't enough- LET US OPT OUT OF ALL AI USE FROM TWITCH. I do not want your ai listening to me to make captions- i have captions already
I do not want your ai monitoring my stream to "help moderate" djring a sponsored stream- I have non ai powered bots, human mods, and a brain.