We're so sick and tired of AI EVERYWHERE and for a new feature that deals with our data to not even be an opt-out option is OUTRAGEOUS. I'd rather not stream at all and abandon Twitch altogether.

Any new feature, especially as controversial as AI needs to be opt-out by default.
No good use case has been delivered or otherwise been presented as to why including AI is beneficial.

This does not belong on a live stream service.

Dear Amazon and Twitch, please stop jumping on the wagon of genAI. It is not worth it, just look at Googles Q1 report.

Opt-out should be the default

Everything AI touches turns to garbage. Don't use us for this slop, you don't get to steal our identities to embarrass us with it. Just plain NO to using our streams, our content, our identities, or anything within our streams or the VODs or the audio tracks. No to AI.

Nobody wants their streams to be training AI to steal their content or their work. It just ruins streaming altogether.

I refuse to let AI use my voice and no one is asking for more AI. This is the last thing we need. It won't help anymore.

No one actually wants AI in a creative platform in any capacity.

Nobody in their right mind would want you to steal our very essence. It's disgusting and needs to stop. No actual people like AI at all

I don't know anybody who wants this energy and water guzzling AI to begin with, but if you insist on making this it should be opted out by default.

With the rise of Ai being put into everything we use on the internet, it is rather discouraging to see that even creative outlets have resorted to wanting / feeling the need to implement Ai services. ESPECIALLY, for things such as Generative Ai related endeavors. Streamers who are opposed to Ai are doing so out of the notion that they want to be passionate and creative without having their efforts stolen and undermined by the lazy efforts of hijacking other's content that then only need a prompt to make anything.

So, I urge those at Twitch to not go forward with Generative Ai. And I personally don't wish to compromise and say I will accept an Opt-Out feature but. These days, times are tough for genuine creators on the internet. So I would hope the Generative Ai aspect can be cut entirely. But yes, an Opt-Out and with Ai features being off by default, that is probably the most a company will do.

Just because other people want to watch the world burn doesn't mean we all do. I prefer to set fire to it on my own terms thank you very much...

Absolutely make this a feature that is opted out by default or perhaps do not implement it at all! Generative-Ai is severely damaging the planet, people's livelihoods and now their hobbies. If Twitch goes ahead with this, then I know many of us, including myself will leave the platform altogether. Say no to generative-ai!

How about you focus your efforts on improving the site instead of adding features no one wanted to begin with? Us small creators are struggling as it is.

To whom it may concern,

I have been on Twitch for many, many years now. Both as a member of multiple communities and as an occasional streamer myself. I've engaged with a variety of different people from so many different backgrounds, each with their own quirks and....eccentricities, for lack of a better word, that make them stand out from everyone else. These communities are what have brought me back on Twitch every day. To engage with these people, what they want to show to us, and what we want to give in return.

Ever since generative AI or just AI use in general has been introduced to the consumer market, 95% of people have had the same reaction: "stop". Disregarding the fact that it is taking work that came directly from people who put their blood, sweat, and tears into building large communities, even with smaller streamers you have people like artists and musicians that this would be taking from. This is not work that can simply be replicated, not even by other people let alone AI. There's no algorithm or calculus for what makes streaming so enjoyable to engage with on both sides. It's a feeling. A feeling that cannot be truly replicated by an AI. Speaking from a wholly logistical standpoint, you will just have a worse product.

If you are going to do this, and I would very much prefer that you stopped this project entirely, at very least let people be opted out by default. Let people CHOOSE to let their content be used to teach AI. They are already providing their time and energy with no strings attached and no payments required. Let them at least control how that time and energy is spent.

AI may be in our future, but it cannot replace what has always been there since the dawn of humankind: our abilities to create and commune. To share in something that is special not just to a handful of people, but to all of us. Don't try to take that away from us.

Respectfully,
Incarna

No one asked for this. Least of all, the hard working men, women and whichever binaries there may be, who are creators on the platform.

How absolutely rediculous is this to even SUGGEST to train some garbage that is literally destroying the world.
Stop this immediately and think about what the **** you're doing.

Let creators opt out of interacting with AI. Many creators are against it and even more of their fans are against it.

Majority of Twitch’s fan base despises the idea of using AI or being part of the circus that trains it. If they make generative AI training automatically opt-in and make the opt-out option impossible to access, they’re going to see a huge drop in users and streamers alike. Content creators want their work protected and viewers just want to support their favorite streamers. I know a bunch of streamers who have already started a soft transfer to other platforms and this might be the final sign for them to switch entirely.

There is something pathetic and desperate about threatening to inject this sort of nonsense into hard-working entertainers' livelihoods. How dare you?