DO. NOT. DO THIS!

**** twitch

you're alienating and driving away loyal viewers. for shame

Going ahead with this after seeing the community outrage, and then setting it to be enabled by default, is straight up evil.

Someone said it best , Generative AI is investor bait. What a way to bleed out more money by adding a feature no one wanted just in the hopes of potentially POTENTIALLY getting an extra buck. The only thing this will do is kill creativity and community.

**** AI

I'm firmly anti-AI. It's a huge gimmick just to appeal to investors (when there's no guarantee of payoff), it steals art without credit or financial compensation, and it's a massive waste of natural resources.

twitch, we hear you loud and clear that you are horrid bastards. everyone is now opted-in by default. go here to turn what little off that we can https://www.twitch.tv/settings/security

Using streamers' data to train generative AI should NOT be opt-out. What happens when twitch rolls out a new AI opt-out feature, and you don't notice for a few days? How can we be sure that twitch didn't already start feeding our data into their AI before we got a chance to opt-out? There's no way to undo that.

Oh hey, seen that Twitch has now not only added AI features, but made it opt-out!
Turn it off in your Security and Privacy section in your Settings!

Amazon decided to enable the generative AI training as OPT-IN BY DEFAULT. DO NOT allow them to get away with this. Twitch, we do not want this. It has 12,000+ votes. DO something about it.

Please remove all AI from twitch or at the very least and I mean the absolute least you could do is make AI features toggled off be default.

I strongly echo support making all AI features optional and opt-in by default, and I agree with creators who have raised concerns about consent and control over how our content is used.

I also want to emphasize another important issue: compensation.

If Twitch believes creator content has enough value to use for AI training or to develop commercial AI systems, creators who voluntarily opt in should be fairly and transparently compensated for that use. Our content should not become a free source of training data simply because it exists on the platform.

Creators who want nothing to do with AI should have a clear, complete opt-out. Those who are willing to contribute should have the ability to opt in—but that choice should come with fair compensation, especially when their work creates commercial value for Twitch or its AI partners.

If Twitch wants creators to contribute to the future of AI, that contribution should be treated as valuable work not free data.

It baffles and disgusts me that a company, currently losing money, that GETS it's money from it's user's creativity, would even entertain the idea of adding AI features that steal everything they dare stream on said platform. You have streamers who stream their art and music, some even being commissioned pieces from other people or perhaps companies. Did no one really think about how illegal that is? Or is it that no one and Twitch ever cared about their creators.

Generative AI is investor bait.
It will have little to no benefit for creators or viewers and, if the recent rumour about Twitch training it with our content is true, I believe it will result in the diminishment of human connection on the platform. Community and human connection is integral to livestreaming and is what has made Twitch so amazing thus far. However, the continued implementation of generative AI features suggests that investors are now of greater importance to Twitch than the creators who are essential to the platform's function, which is counterproductive. Additionally, considering the Twitch CEO has previously stated that the platform has not been profitable, I am somewhat baffled by the pursuit of costly generative AI features.

I am in huge support of this UserVoice request. Any and all features on Twitch that use generative AI must be optional and creators must be opted-out of them by default. The same goes for Training AI on creator's content.

Absolutely not cool Twitch. No one wants AI nor should they be forced to use it. Big thumbs down to this. 👎🏻

Threatening to train your AI by stealing your userbase's work is so insanely disgustingly insulting and completely unconscionable. I will not be using Twitch again until we have the assurance that you will not just be stealing all of our work to feed into your chatbot. Revolting.

Twitch, this is such a spit in the face to all of the content creators on your platform. You should not be forcing this AI garbage on your creators, the people who are the reason the platform even exists.

We don't want these "features". Keep AI off the platform.

Don't do it twitch, nobody wants ai on twitch

I hope Twitch does not do like they did about the Ice Commercials.

Twitch: "We will not force Ice Commercials."
3 days later
I see 6 ice commercials air in a 6 hour period over 4 streamers.