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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MochaKnightess
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How about we don't use AI at all?? Is that so hard instead of being greedy and shoving it down all our throats while you rake in the earnings? We have a community that works together streamers and artists and watchers alike who have put their lives on and into this platform and then this?? Its a spit in the face.
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HareBrainedArts
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I dont want any kind of Generative AI learning from our streams. If Generative AI is added I will withdraw from Twitch completely.
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RoeisMe
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Absolutely insane that twitch would even consider not making this optional for creators, and honestly just terrible they are integrating AI at all given that the gaming community is largely opposed to it. Makes me extremely hesitant towards supporting twitch anymore, and if they go through with it I don't think ill be keeping my account. Make the right choice here
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JellyBzcut
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NO AI! Especially not one that is training on OUR creativity to do whatever the world they are going to do with it. It's crazy how a platform that encourages creativity to push for adding AI to their service. At least allow it to be automatically "opt-out", but they probably won't do it like these because I doubt there are that many people who would "opt-in".
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Madeinsheena
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Ai training with our voiles, ideas and faces is a terrible idea ! No one will agree with this. You will lose so much people on the platform by implementing this. I don't get how and who though it was a great idea and what great could come out of this...
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Tarcisius_
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Bad idea all around. The technology isn't mature enough to use yet, regardless of anyone's opinion on it. Even if I were a fan of the technology in its current state, it doesn't even work better than humans for technical applications like coding.
I don't believe that it belongs in the creative sphere at all.
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TheInnsanity
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Twitch is already *barely* better than the alternatives, don't force all of us to migrate with this ******* decision. Even if it was popular and people signed up for it, the data you would get from it would be trash anyways, maybe fix generated subtitles before you try to push word salad dogshit into some planet destroying LLM.
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SuperRealGamers
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NO AI ON TWITCH! Twitch is a place of OUR choices and our own liking!
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Phiretuck
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AI is only going to make the platform worse and making it mandatory would be abhorrent.
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chibeez0
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NO AI ON TWITCH PLEASE!!! PEOPLE'S LIVELIHOODS ARE AT STAKE HERE!!!
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sydneyvengeance
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With the rise of Flock cameras, AI art winning state competitions, data centers polluting small towns. I do not want AI involved with twitch whatsoever. I do not want to be opted into anything having to do with AI at all. So please do not implement it. With everyone being against ai more and more data centers will be shut down. Then what will people do with these ai things that don't have enough power to run them.
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Klony99
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I really do not care about the corporate bla bla surrounding AI features. You are using your monopoly in streaming to force users into providing training content. This is immoral and wrong. If people are okay or enthusiastic about AI, they can opt in, but having it turned on by default or forcing people to participate is holding a gun to their livelyhood.
It is immoral, and therefore nothing I can support with my money or time.
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fyerluna
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If you want human creators on this platform this needs to be opt in and off by default, or not introduced at all. Opt out might make initial adoption rates look good in the short term, but retention rates for both the feature and the site as a whole will suffer.
I understand a company like Twitch and its parent company Amazon are more interested in marketshare than profit, because in the long run marketshare and brand recognition will give you a monopoly without necessarily having a legal monopoly by US law. I also understand that means there is a lot of money going into training an AI to stream instead of a human, since an AI costs pennies when the training data is stolen (opt out features are not consent in the common understanding, even if there are legal protections buried on the terms of use) and the AI doesn't take a share of profits, it only requires the cost of building and maintaining the buildings. I'll bet that sounds like a great financial move on paper for both short term savings and long term profit. I bet that's all anyone at the top sees, but mark my words: you will make less money overall and you will lose the human creators who keep this business running so there will be nothing to fall back on when the money runs out.
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thebonezone66
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I vehemently oppose this, and will advocate to boycott and migrate off of the service if it continues to be presented as an inevitable feature, regardless of how Twitch attempts to make it palatable.
The untrained eye is getting better at spotting deep fake or generative material(Notice how I refuse to call it content), and consumer fatigue is rolling over pretty quickly into active malfeasance and open revolt. Your investors do not know what the average user wants. You yourselves, do not seem to know what the average user wants. Creatives who's livelihood are hurt by these predatory business practices have already had a tenuous foundation of trust with this platform for years BEFORE being told their work will likely be stolen and regurgitated back out by a learning model.
And what? Twitch wants to paint it as charitable and gracious that they are 'giving content creators the option' to opt out of the scraping? They may as well tell anyone partnered that their value has been expended and their free ride has run its course like the actual tech elite do and stop masquerading as community first.
I do not buy for a moment that opting into or out of such a feature will offer any protections for any content creators on this platform by the way. If anyone is reading through this and they go forward I would honestly file a legal motion for them to produce evidence that they are deleting your content off the platform if you decide to go scorched earth on the way out.
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akillspepe
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Logged back in just to say this is an awful idea that will disappoint most creators.
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SPACEBITZVT
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AI has no place in my streams or my channel.
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CadmiumBQ
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I agree with this. *Have the features off by default.* If you're worried about it getting use, then give us some sort of notification that it exists, let us know it's opted out by default, and tell us/link us to where we can opt in if we want. Heck, put a toggle on that notif with the default being off and people that want it will use it. If people don't read that part, that's on them. But don't toss me in a lake and then ask me if I want to go swimming. I do not want to use AI or to be used by the AI. I don't want this sort of AI in this space to begin with, but if I *have* to exist with it in my space, I don't want to just... be opted in.
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maygame_kk
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Make all AI features optional, and opt-out by default
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popwinn
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This is bs
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pyxbomb
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I vehemently disagree with the use of AI, generative and other, for anything. and do not agree with the use of my content to train this. this should be an opt in, NOT an opt out!