Make all AI features optional, and opt-out by default.
For any features on Twitch which use AI, allow all creators to opt in or opt out of them individually, and set the default to Opt Out for all new AI features. We as creators should have the choice whether to use AI or not on our channels. If we do not want to use it at all, it's important for us to be able to have that choice, AND for us not to be opted in by default.
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xena_morningstar
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There are people leaving because twitch keep wanting to put AI in everything. If it keeps up. Twitch may no longer have people on it.
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ThanatosMuse
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Training ai with my stream? Nope. I am definitely moving out if ot happens.
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TheLakester
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No AI. At least make it optional and opt out by default.
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soraissa
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Why the **** would you do this? Ai is killing the planet. Leave ai alone and stop training it. While youre trying to make ai smarter youre making people dumber. Knock this **** off.
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sluggo___
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No.
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CaptDedEyes
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This is an absolutely disastrous idea. Generative AI has been becoming increasingly unpopular among the public, especially for its harmful impact on the environment & on the Internet.
It's also proven to be a money sink with no way to recoup the massive cost to run it, so Twitch would be participating in Amazon's sunk cost fallacy if genAI training is implemented on livestreams.
Don't come off as hypocritical by saying "it's important for us to have that choice, AND for us to not to be opted in by default" right after stating "set the default to Opt Out for all new AI features." At the very least, give users the option to opt-out. Make it opt-in by default, even! But you can't have it both ways.
However, as soon as streamers even gets a sniff of genAI covertly working behind the scenes despite opting out, thousands of indie streamers will want to leave until there's nothing left but the big streamers.
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azureHaights
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Do you want a mass exodus? Because this - [points at the specter of the planet-burning content-hallucinating plagiarism machine] - this is how you get a mass exodus.
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MagicaGrove
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AI is ruining everything. It’s ruining platforms by stealing from content creators and not to mention, killing our environment. This shouldn’t be an option. Don’t add this
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Kaldannan
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I am sick to death of having gen-AI pushed on us. All it's being used for is stealing creators' content to generate slop for someone else's profit. I do not want this in any way, shape or form on Twitch, especially without having a choice in the matter: all it tells me is that whoever suggested this and/or is making the decision views creators as a disposable resource. Twitch would not exist without its creators or viewers, and using us to create more slop will ensure it no longer has either of them.
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quadrantthree
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Twitch, you have a huge art community (even collaborating with some artists for hype train emotes), yet you have the gall to even consider implementing AI ****? WHAT THE ****!?!???!??
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MisteriaWolfe
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Forcing someone to consent to this is a great way to run anyone with half a braincell off your platform. Don't do this. I will move to the next available streaming platform if this goes through.
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euanpc
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yeah keep that slop **** away from my content please!!
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wonder_worrier
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If they start using streams to train GenAI, I definitely won't be streaming on Twitch again.
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ArisTGD
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I am a twitch turbo subscriber of long standing and will leave if streamers are not allowed to opt out.
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StudioJumpstar
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I will forever be in favor of companies that implement automatic opt-outs for GenAI and even including AI killswitches such as what Firefox has done to ensure I never have to see anything having to do with it, EVER. This is blatantly disrespectful for your creators and a clear grab for bogus profit that is not going to be given to the creators Amazon plans to scrape from.
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HockeyBabbler
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I will not be streaming to Twitch any longer if this goes through. I in no way consent to my voice or likeness being used to train AI.
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ChronotronGun
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No AI features. Most normal people hate AI and you'd be putting us in the awkward position of wanting to support our favorite streamers and not wanting to support AI slop. AI is hated by customers and you only have to look at MS copilot to see it is a money loser
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JTHavock
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Forget a choice, it shouldn't be an option PERIOD.
No one wants it, its unethical and environmentally and educationally destructive. The point of streaming is humans connecting with humans, not slop regurgitating trash.
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inak_inkfell
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You are turning almost everyone in the creative spaces like art on Twitch against you, and many, many more in every other space.
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Storm_LunaTic
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As an art streamer this is particularly egregious as not only are you using my streams to train Gen AI, you're using the art within it. This is damaging to me in multiple ways and I refuse to stand by while my work is stolen. Should you enforce this with no way of avoiding it, I shall be leaving the platform and pulling all my subscriptions including twitch turbo and amazon prime.