Training AI models on streamers is a huge mistake. Not only would you be using the voices and images of streamers without their consent, you would also be doing so with every game's contents, which opens up an entire can of worms with developers. The number of creators that will leave if this goes through, especially as opt-in by default.
No one wants this slop

Ridiculous idea, an insane amount of Twitch creators are pro-art and an even larger amount will be conveniently kept in the dark that their faces are being used to train these things.

Twitch lacks transparency. I do not want ai stealing from me and fellow creators and user data centers to permanently hurt the environment even more.

Stuff like this makes me want to never stream on here again. We will not stand for this garbage. GenAi has no good use and belongs off of Twitch.

I don’t want AI in any capacity.

I don’t want the streamers I watch get used for AI.

I don’t want my comments scraped for AI.

I. Don’t. Want. AI.

Generative AI does not and will not be profitable no matter how much training data you feed it. Instead of wasting resources, money, and users' waning goodwill to appease a few con artists, you could actually work on improving your platform? The AI bubble is falling apart, jumping onboard at the last minute is foolish. Your revenue comes from watchers and streamers, don't give them more reason to leave.

The platform survived without AI and prospered before it as well. AI shouldn't be forced onto it's user base. It's obvious people by majority do not like it.

People don't like being used to train a model without consent or secretively. You can set an example by staying AI free and still winning!

This should be defaulted to Opt-Out. We are all sick of forced AI features.

This is despicable. This "feature" should be at minimum, and opt-IN function. Stealing from content creators to feed one of the most dangerous, destructive, and divisive constructs of our generation is objectively a bad move. If this goes through, I will 100% be pulling any and all support I have for twitch and start advocating against it as hard as I can because that's the only thing I feel like I can do in the face of this. WE DON'T WANT AI, STOP TRYING TO FORCE IT DOWN OUR THROATS. Generative AI is a sin against the human condition, creativity, and the soul. I will fight this with every fiber of my being.

Do not make AI features.

This may come across as a bit of a ramble, but I'm just letting my thoughts go out on this from what I know and what I've seen.

If Twitch goes ahead with this complete slap in the face to the creative sphere, I will end up leaving Twitch and streaming elsewhere.

I made my account 13 years ago and recently started to get back into streaming on a semi-regular basis as a way to unwind and just get away from all the GenAI misinformation plaguing social spaces globally, it was my escape from the day-to-day where I could experience true human made content from actual artists and enthusiasts.

To suddenly find out that Twitch is seriously considering training AI models using peoples streams I find this absolutely abhorrent, and a middle finger to the artists, creators and teams that have made Twitch what it is today.

Stop listening to the "TechBros" that claim this is the "future" of production, its not.

The overall business for AI is in a state constant loss in the markets, there is no clear return and businesses who got in early are starting to realise this, to date none of the general-purpose "frontier" AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini have made ANY profit since they were formed.

A lot of the "AI Experts" that have been heavily pushing for AI adoption are doing so out of desperation to keep their failing business model from going under, despite the fact that companies like Microsoft are starting to realise this and are silently pulling away from typical GenAI into more locally run/hosted systems that are cheaper, use less resources (like Water or computer hardware) as this pivot moves towards a more sustainable method which isn't built on stolen work.

To give an insight into this failing market, OpenAI has a predicted net loss of $13bn for 2026.

Google recently raised its 2026 capital expenditures up to $205bn, which caused their free cash flow to turn negative for the first time since 2004.

Given that Twitch has not actually returned a net profit since 2014, getting into the AI market would clearly bury the site and provide that final nail in the coffin, this idea would be Twitches undoing, especially since Amazon are performing a similar move as Microsoft by silently pulling away from the frontier GenAI models to more local systems, Twitches approach to this seems to contradict this move believing it would increase profits, but it wouldn't and is clearly not a feature people want.

The aspect being ignored here is the growing market for traditional and human made content, if you go hard into marketing that you would find yourselves moving more and more into a dominant position again, where others who have adopted the AI stance have seen immense declines in their true market value.

Listen to your userbase, because we're the ones using it and bringing attention to your product, ignoring us would just mean you're shooting yourself in the foot, there's plenty of others who can come around and build a streaming service using the same infrastructure as Twitch (just look at Kick).

Youtube is gaining more traction for a streaming service, if they amended their livestreaming chats to reflect more like Twitch then I would not be surprised if there was a mass exodus to that platform instead.

NO ONE WANTS THIS

Forcing unwanted AI features on my channel or using my streams to train AI models would be sufficient cause for me to no longer stream on this platform.

ai ******* suck ****

This would be a bare minimum. Stop investing in AI. It sucks, it's dangerous, no one with half a brain wants it. Please, stop.

These planned AI "features" are disrespectful to your artists and streamers, especially since so many of them are against generative AI already. Your platform relies on its creators, and implementing AI training on their content is guaranteed to convince many of them to move to other platforms. The ability to Opt Out and to do so by default is honestly the bare minimum I'd accept (and plenty of other users as well) to keep using Twitch, and would GREATLY prefer these features not be implemented at all.

The only reason you could have to insist on this degree of AI implementation is to make fake streams, cutting out the actually talented people that make you any money to begin with.

You keep insisting that you're in the red, wasting what little income you have to destroy all of your future income is beyond foolish.

This is completely pointless if the plan is to have generative content on the site in the first place.
Please no AI.

GenAI in any form is antithetical to art and creativity in general. There should be no such thing or anything close to it on this platform. Please do not implement this in any form.

Wow! Using ai to train fake streamers to steal content is disgusting! Whoever suggested this should be fired!

Major companies are marching towards using AI even though if anything it has constantly proven to cause issues for both the environment and creators. There’s no meaningful reason to employ AI services that don’t serve practical applications. Not to mention the ethical issues it has caused (AI generating realistic images of child *********** for example). This further just feeds into the ****** maelstrom that this is gradually turning into.

I won’t engage with any platforms that willingly use AI that takes away from the very essence of why that platform was created in the first place.