I don't even think the comments are worth making here anymore. You aren't listening to us. You just don't want to listen to us.

Not your first frankly disgraceful move towards generative AI and no doubt not your last, but someone needs to tell your decision makers to stop pushing this garbage.

Generative AI is a blight upon humanity, a betrayal of all things creative, and a backslap to every single one of us who have built this platform into what it is. By continuing to align yourself with it, you continue to demonstrate that human creation does not matter to a platform that ostensibly has thrived on the unique ideas of the individuals therein.

Cancel this event, and fix your hearts.

Hey Twitch, I think we need to talk.

We know you're trying to be all 'hip and cool' for your streamers, and you want to help them in anyway you can to get more people to stream. Because we know that more streamers means more cash rolling in, and that's a good thing, right?

And then you heard about GenAI, and so you thought to yourself "Hey, this stuff looks pretty neat. Maybe we should use it too!"

Next thing you know, you used it to give people the choice to have their streams scraped by the system, which is akin to stealing, with the exception that you gave a choice to swat your hand and tell you to stop stealing from us.

And now you're sponsoring this Hackathon event, which is partnering up with OpenAI to give us more Generative AI that we didn't ask for?

Twitch, I've known you for a long time... and I'd like to believe you're better than this, being addicted to this drug called generative AI, and then trying to push this drug onto others...

Because at it's core, it's people that helped Twitch thrive, not generative AI.

Once again, Twitch endangers the backbone of its entire user base.

We are creatives, and we are the ones making you money. If you alienate us this blithely, you will lose more than you gain.

Even those of us who stay have already lost considerable goodwill towards the platform - do not squander what you have left.

Agreed. Most people do NOT want AI. This is practically forcing it on everyone. Twitch has fallen far away from their core values of respect by allowing more of this slop onto their platform.

This is as tone deaf as a cannibalism booth at a vegan convention.

If our last Uservoice on the forced opt-in of GenAI was not enough, please hear your users with this. This is extremely tone deaf. We are asking staff to pass our strong distaste for this on to the higher ups.

Creative communities are especially wary of things like this and you will only further alienate those communities from using your platform by going forward with this. For a long time I was able to point artists to Twitch and say "it's the only social media where you're safe from data theft." I am sad to say this is no longer the case.

If you haven't heard, GenAI is broadly unpopular with most people globally, and moves like this will certainly discourage new users from trying the platform and turn people off from continuing to stream or subscribe through Twitch to support streamers. It's a bad move from a PR standpoint and a revenue standpoint. Many in my community and others are expressing a desire to stop giving Twitch money for subs and bits over these decisions.

Conversely, think of how many people all over the internet would FLOCK to Twitch if you were to be staunchly against forcing slop onto your users. Twitch has an opportunity here to basically roll out the welcome mat to many creators all over the internet fleeing most social spaces. People remember when platforms protect them, and it would do so much for brand loyalty.

Things like this only reinforce the impression that Twitch is massively out of touch with streamers.

Oh good, more government-funded stealing from creators. What a great thing to push on a creative platform.

Twitch is about the USERS not the TECH. Get this AI slop out of our community.

Cancel this event and in fact I'd like to see games incorporating GenAI usage banned from the platform entirely.

GenAI has no place on platform dedicated to the beauty of creativity and HUMAN connection.

Get this **** outta here.

How many times will you blatantly disregard our consistent feedback against genAI only to walk it back and have the gall to say “we hear you”?

Rinse and repeat. No amount of attempting to force genAI into Twitch will make us suddenly want it.

There is no desire nor market for something like this. Please stop trying to shove it into all aspects of the internet when none of us want it.

Streaming and such is for creative PEOPLE, not LLMs masquerading as people or people using them to bypass the creativity parts or the effort to learn the things they want to do.

Do something else, something celebrating HUMAN creativity instead of this stolen mishmash soup of broken ideas and inhumanity that GenAI/LLMs have been serving up.

You've got thousands of people working hard to present various human experiences. Celebrate those instead! The humans are the only reason you exist at all.

Absolutely none of your dedicated streamers want GenAI slop infecting their livelihoods, there is absolutely NO WAY that this can be helpful for streamers or moderators as AutoMod is NOTORIOUSLY bad at catching spam bots and flagging innocent chat messages as “dangerous”. No one liked the AI generated emotes and ads that are pumped into streams, no one liked the “let us scrape your streams and accounts to make a dumb anime dating sim” idea, and EVERYONE hates this new plan for a “genAI panel” because NO ONE CARES ABOUT THIS GARBAGE BUT YOU MONEY GRABBING LOSERS.

We have been ridiculously vocal about our utter disdain for GenAI features, ads, events and what-have-ya. But clearly you don't wanna listen. So I'm done shouting at a wall, personally: F**k Twitch; f**k genAI chuds, f**k their simp-athizers, and f**k Jeff's bozos—I'm outta here.

We don't want AI.
Nobody wants AI.
Please cancel this event.
It's embarrassing.
You should feel ashamed. You know that this isn't what your users want.

NO GEN AI FOREVER

No one wants this. The creative streamers are the reason people come to Twitch, let alone Twitchcon, and time and time again they have made it clear that generative AI is NOT WANTED. This isn't even getting into the environmental or even societal damage these AI companies can cause/have caused; creative folks have said NO. This betrays the trust of streamers and the communities they have built, and it will only push them away from this platform that, to be blunt, would not function without them.

We're tired of being ignored, and we're sick of being betrayed. For once, listen to people, not dollar signs.

the "how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man" spongebob meme remains evergreen