Please, for the love of God, don't do this. I'm hard put to think of anything I loathe more than I loathe AI.

The core of Twitch is real people. Gen AI is a slap in the face to all streamers and most people will not take such disrespect. The large majority of people DESPISE gen AI.
Many Twitch streamers have succesfully left to stream over on Youtube in the past, so nothing is stopping affiliates and partners from doing the same now.

I will personally never spend a cent on this platform if such Gen AI features are added.

Hi someone that works in the field of Economics, I know that the idea of using AI would look tempting especially given what it can offer at the moment but, long term given how none of the existing models are pulling in revenue and only losing money it would be ill advise to incorporate anything of the sort to this platform, with a majority of the communities that exist being highly against Ai usage in the creative field.

I know you guys are getting massive money offerings, but consider what GenAI does long term and how our planet is suffering. All the forests Data Centers destroy will be gone, all the water they suck up will be gone. There is no regenerating those resources. Trees take several decades to grow, water is finite, it evaporates from our planet and then falls down as rain fall. There is no extra water being generated anywhere. Seriously think about these issues, and stop supporting these awful companies who think of only short term profits and then use their money to take people's rights away in political campaigns. We all know that's the cycle. Put your foot down. Don't do this. You'll have to roll everything back in the next 1-3 years. Why not start now by not doing it in the first place? Save yourselves the trouble.

Don't even have AI things in the first place. We are here because of real people doing real things. There is no incentive to watch fake stuff made by machines. Without your creators this place is dead in no time. It only got so big because it was creator friendly. This is your last chance to not destroy yourself. The AI bubble will burst and you will go down with it.

Absolutely no to Gen AI. If you decide to try to shove this absolute trash down our throats, it will be the very last red cent you'll ever see from me, my family, or anybody I know. Just. Don't.

Twitch is a platform for creatives and gamers. we don't want gen-ai shoved into our streams, our faces, or our communities. and im not about to have my voice taken and used by gen-ai. twitch is for creative humans, not slop-machines

Dear Twitch.

As a small creator with a motor mouth; generative Ai does not belong on the platform. I don't care what you think. I'm friends with a lot of different creators, and it feels insulting that a computer is being pushed to replace their creativity. That's right. I feel it is insulting. To all of us.

The time and effort some of us creators put in to make content for others entertainment is real. And you're trying to steal that by training an Ai. It is increasingly frustrating and genuinely discouraging for those of us that haven't even found good traction yet despite our great efforts.

Rethink this. And I truly hope you do rethink it, as this will not improve anything. It will only harm your platform.

Sincerely, a discouraged small creator.

If Gen AI is using my streams, I will up and leave Twitch. As a VTUBER as I respect my Model artist too much to have her work be fed into GenAI

Twitch partner here. I will leave the platform entirely over generative AI using my streams. I’ll move my whole community elsewhere. This is a hill I, and many others, will die on. F**k AI.

AI is NOT going to help at all. It’s not going to make anything “better” or “easier”. It just steals from creators and artists that actually put in the work, time and effort into everything they do for others! I get so many bot accounts and it’s very frustrating and discouraging for someone who is starting out and trying to build an authentic and genuine community already on Twitch. This stuff doesn’t help anyone and it hurts the planet and us as a whole in the long run.

Please rethink everything!

Sincerely, a small creator.

Dear Twitch Execs,

Gen AI does NOT belong in the creative "industry". Even with information, it is statistically proven that AI will generally be worse than anything real people can do. You people are going into this dumb project hoping to make something akin to the AI-VTuber Neuro or Caine from The Amazing Digital Circus but all your going to get is a brainless, heartless machine that spews out garbage when you tell it to give you gold. Stop while you've still got the time and still have creators on the site. All this will do is drive people away.

-sincerely, a small content creator

It’s so disrespectfull to believe you have a right to use our faces and identities. Stop being greedy and delusional.

We are on this platform to support artists, not an AI. Artists do not want their content plundered by an AI, and we, the audience, do not want that kind of theft either.
Personally, if this becomes automatic, I will abandon any platform that engages in such practices; we do not want AI in our lives.

I do not want my content used to train AI and automatically opting people into it is scummy and makes me not trust that even if I "opt out" it will happen, I do not want to find out my opt out was entirely useless later down the line with a big "haha woopsy" twitter post

If the reports that Twitch is considering using streams to train generative AI are true, it may well be the single most out of touch thing the company has ever done, and I fear for the long term stability of this platform, which I love. It also opens up a TON of questions.

Generative AI is *actively* harmful to the types of creative people who make Twitch possible. GenAI Models trained on art are being used to replace artists. Models trained on music are being used to replace musicians. Models trained on code are being used to replace coders. So what would a model trained on streams be used for, exactly?
And a model trained on such disparate streams as you see on Twitch will yield unpredictable results. Some streamers swear heavily, some make innuendos, some are very kid friendly. Will streamers be encouraged or even required to tone it down to youtube levels of kid friendliness, to ensure the model behaves?

Finally - it's no secret that the genAI industry is a bubble that's waiting to burst. My personal opinion is that it's more like a pyramid scheme, and companies getting in at the bottom are suckers, but my point is - is it smart to pour money into this, at a time when the price of the required hardware is ridiculously high, for an unknown benefit, while making both your viewers and creators mad at you? I dearly love the communities I've discovered on Twitch, but if they decide to move to another platform over this, I'll be going with them.

AI bubble is bursting and you want to use AI everywhere ? Weird choice ...
We are CREATORS, we create ... We are not some lazys AI bros who thinks AI is an art.

I do not want my content to be used for AI training

If you implement this, I will show streamers how to poison their video stream so that AI can't be trained to generate content. And if you think I am bluffing, you will fail.

Using AI in 2026 ? Cringe...

How about you encourage people creating things by themselves BY HAND, that's what Twitch is all about (unless I'm wrong and stupid, in that case, guess I'll just get ******).