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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CaptainMangles
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I think all Twitch streamers should stop streaming on Twitch. Let it burn down. AI won't have anything to train on if no one is here, and poor little Amazon will have a small dent in their wallet.
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MamoruTheRed
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First you force new affiliates to fork over their information to a non reputable 3rd party company that lied about it keeping data for extended periods of time, but now you have this?! This is insanity, and I know for a fact that there is friction on this internally. Listen to those people, this *will* destroy twitch for good. Aside from the obvious harm that the ai systems and tech have clearly shown now adays, which, I know that Dan Clancy doesn't care (the perverted freak that he is), there is a massive draw back you aren't seeing: legalities. This will infringe heavily on everyone who copywrites their own brand or even deals with companies. They will back out more and more to the point no one will bother with this platform.
Lets not forget the inherent dangers of AI and its misuse in the hands of people who are not above revenge **** and content of the like (need I mention him again?). Finally, the AI bubble is popping as we speak. There has been no new money made through any venture, in fact, they have lost money with every company and even the makers of said AI are financially failing. You will be no different. This absurdity will only end with you doing the correct thing and not implementing it...or getting rid of Dan as a whole, but that is a different story.
I am but one voice, but I know you have gotten nothing but pushback. If you care about your wallet as well as the ecosystem of streaming, rethink this.
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WickBRSTM
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Keep AI far, far away from my channel and my work. It is not welcome.
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OtterOddities
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AI features are a sure fire way to get me to move off the platform entirely and not look back for even a second
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JintiGoat
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1: don't touch AI at all
2: scuttle everyone who championed it, immediately. Dead weight at best, thieves and scumbags at worst. -
Chardog_
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I don't think they asked a single creator if they actually wanted features like this. Anyways if they don't at least make an opt-out option I'm going to make it my personal mission to poison their data as hard as possible
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MysteryValleyOfDoom
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Hey Twitch, if you don't ask for a consent for you to use creator's content to train your clanker machine, then you don't get consent from streamers to stream on your own platform. This is 2026, time to wrap it up with the slop, this thing won't do you any good.
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KUP0_01
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This is absolutely how you ruin your platform and discourage content creators from continuing to use it for generating you revenue. It is a slap to the face of anyone who remotely enjoys using the platform that you'd rather steal and make AI slop of their work instead of actually implementing new features.
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Puzzlex51
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Extremely gross. Opt out should be the default, or even better, don't do this at all. So many creators have made it clear they want nothing to do with GenAI. Maybe read the room instead of continuing to try and force stuff that you have to know will make folks leave?
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wwardlaw
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Creators should have 100% control over if the content they create is allowed to be used for training any AI features and they should be default opted out of any such program if Twitch insists on moving forward with such a collaboration. Stealing the creativity of the people who choose to broadcast on Twitch would be shameful, short-sighted, and would discourage me from streaming, watching favorite streamers, or subscribing in the future.
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jmsheridan
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The features should be optional and opt out by default. In fact, you should NOT be involved at all in AI. Scrapping users’ work, stealing their work. They are the ones that made you bums fat, and happy, and rich. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
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ComeNGoTavern
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Twitch already makes money off of the free content made by most streamers due to advertising. Now they want to violate peoples' IP rights by stealing their content for hyper-polluting slop factories as well? Horrible idea that will result in a drastic drop in users and open them up to a slough of lawsuits. There should be *no* introduction of AI features, much less training off of streams.
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YoursSpudly
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Make it opt out by default. Even better yet! Don't do this. Period. I swear to all the gods there are that the next time you throw the streamers & creatives that keep you afloat under the bus, we're dragging your under with us, you ******* beets.
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Mr_Nohbdy
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None of your actual users requested any of this and none of the viewers want it either. This proposed feature shouldn't even exist at all, let alone be up for a vote to opt in to or out of. Twitch already tears down it's users for streaming verified content, so to allow ai tools to just steal content and nothing be done is just cruel and outright backwards.
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TetraMocha
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I don't want any form of generative AI, I did not consent to have any of my streams or content trained on.
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Bicheyte
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U know, there is alternatives for streaming. And some other who are more ethical than yours. We can clearly choose to get the **** out if you really wants to. If we stay on Twitch, it's because we got some equilibrium in accessibility and ethic. But if you choose to break the contract, it's not hard to get the **** out.
I'm saying this, it's been almost ten years I stream here.
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StrayScythe
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You BETTER dial it back. This is horrendous with the amount of people who disagree with AI, SPECIALLY if it's being trained on their own content. What the **** is wrong with you.
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brightshadow
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Nothing makes me more excited to log on and stream like knowing that I'm helping create slop for some blockhead's environment destroying autocomplete script.
When I say 'excited' here, what I mean is excited to find another platform to stream on that does not do this.
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Parrotkeet
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Relying on Generative AI does not work. I've seen those WWE AI videos where the narrator has a breakdown for minutes at a time... and there's far more than one instance of that happening.
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Brazen_Bard
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This is possibly Twitch's worst idea to date - no user *wants* AI tools forced onto them. And creatives most certainly don't want a data harvesting tool jammed into their streams.
Just don't do it.