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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realXnoobSpeakable
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Agreed
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goodnightfira
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I strongly lean against using AI at all. If it's going to be implemented, it's going to be disabled in every capacity I can choose for it to be. If it can't be disabled, I'll leave.
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kintoun42
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How about not adding ai to the platform in the first place?
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SirButtShuffle
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The AI facade is breaking down and some foolish suits want to do this type of nonsense?
Everyone in charge should have their positions reevaluated, no user wants AI training off of our chat messages, our streams and VODs, our channel info and art, or anything.
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jmasm_95
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Don’t add AI at all. The general public hates AI.
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UrzaMTG
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My money and my streams will go elsewhere if you commit to the AI grift.
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StormTempesteCh
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Twitch is not the only player in the livestreaming field, hasn't been for a long time. If they push their streamers into being AI training data, they will cease to be a player in that field entirely. AI is a bubble that's about to burst that has yet to be profitable, and currently is relying on governments footing the bill for the costs to avoid bankruptcy. This isn't even a smart move on the business side of things.
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ElisaRockDoc
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Your platform is built on the backs of not just "gamers," but voice actors, musicians, and other artists of all stripes. I am ALL OF THE ABOVE, and my voice, likeness, and art is not only precious to me, but is also my INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. I was going to come back to Twitch to share my new music and connect with people as a voice actor and educator, but I refuse to take part in anything that even REMOTELY thinks that feeding my intellectual property into a woodchipper to be regurgitated by a GenerativeAI slop machine that NOBODY ASKED FOR EXCEPT YOUR INVESTORS is a good idea. Readjust your priorities before I readjust my stream key to another platform.
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itz__summer
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NO AI!!!!
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themetalbun
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Training AI off of streamers is a clear breach of trust for people who invest days of their time into your platform as creators.
There is no ifs, ands, or buts about it; this is a terrible decision and will never be anything BUT a terrible decision.
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Scarlettnyah
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No AI. I will take my money out of the Twitch ecosystem and support my favourite streamers elsewhere if this happens.
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lateralusian
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I do NOT want any AI on twitch. If you implement these kind of changes, i will stop using twitch.
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Qardnall
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I want nothing to do with AI, either in my stream, on my stream, around my stream, or using my stream as training data for some nebulous product that isn't even going to work properly in the first place. This bubble needs to pop already, nobody wants this **** and it isn't going to help the platform with growth or sustainability. Stop it
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Bear_Enthusiast
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AI is toxic to creativity. Every streamer I watch is greatly against generative AI, and I would be less likely to watch something if AI were involved.
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Kawamaru
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I will stop using the site entirely if this AI update goes through. I'm not here for this fake ****, I'm here for genuine human connection.
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fluffybillygoat
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This is stupid, no AI whatsoever.
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Stealthygolem
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Please keep this service more about people and the community rather than businesses throwing money around in their AI bubbledome of gibberish ♥
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qrow92
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A vast majority of streamers here are HEAVILY opposed to this idea and at the BARE MINIMUM would want at least an option to opt out of this.
That said, I'd much rather prefer that Twitch NOT proceed with anything regarding GenAI, it has become so toxic in unpopularity and is not worth delving into at all.
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STUEFALive
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No AI. Don't push this on us.
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Cobie
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AI undermines the connection between streamer and chat, and devalues the "product" that twitch is selling??? If you want to treat every stream as original, this is not the way. When people are trying to make streams from themselves, their original ideas and their own charismatic personalities, then the ideas of privacy and identity are SO important. So I am baffled by this direction and will not be part of feeding any AI systems.
Why would streamers and chatters continue to use Twitch when AI features makes it not even feel like Twitch any more? Sites like Tiktok live will replace Twitch if you make the mistake of devaluing your client base and pushing people away with AI features.
AI is so universally divisive that I'm baffled you would even entertain it, not to mention the cost which is notably having impact on even huge megacorps like Google.
AI learning MUST be off by default and streamers must be allowed to make informed choices about which features utilise AI. Twitch need to improve and be transparent about this.