You say you strive to be transparent, and yet you're installing an opaque system that will blind us without our consent.
You say you support artists and their talents, and yet you want to implement a malicious system proven to blatantly pillage and plagiarize their hard work.
You say you want to promote our authentic content, and yet you wish to use an artificial system that will push "authentic" content that lacks the soul, ethos, and integrity of what we do.
You say - sorry, "carefully word" - one thing, Twitch... and yet the context speaks otherwise - and in volumes to boot.
Implementing generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and forcing it upon us (without even offering a 100% opt-out option by default) is probably one of the worst ideas this company can/will implement.
There's shooting yourself in the foot - and then there's this.
This is the equivalent of telling us that the obviously spiked drink you're trying to serve us isn't poisonous - and then drinking it in front of us in a feeble attempt to prove us wrong.
We know it's poison. You know it's poison. You know the consequences of using poison - and yet you've strapped us onto a table and are getting ready to waterboard us with it anyway.
You do this, and your userbase will die - and with it, you. What was once considered a mighty mountain will crumble into oblivion, blown away by the winds of time.
(And don't try to "Princess Bride" your way out of this - iocane powder is a far simpler toxin to endure than GenAI.)
But what do I know? I'm just a sad, little Affiliate who just wants to see genuine people do real things on the Internet - and if we're really, really, lucky: these genuine people will grow to create an authentic legacy that will extend your existence in a positive direction.
...but if your objective is to be a sad, little king on a sad, little hill - then by all means: do this toxic thing. Inject GenAI on your platform. Watch your virtual oasis visited by millions transform into a digital uncanny valley viewbotted by the very algorithms used to promote "real" content.
You say you strive to be transparent, and yet you're installing an opaque system that will blind us without our consent.
You say you support artists and their talents, and yet you want to implement a malicious system proven to blatantly pillage and plagiarize their hard work.
You say you want to promote our authentic content, and yet you wish to use an artificial system that will push "authentic" content that lacks the soul, ethos, and integrity of what we do.
You say - sorry, "carefully word" - one thing, Twitch... and yet the context speaks otherwise - and in volumes to boot.
Implementing generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and forcing it upon us (without even offering a 100% opt-out option by default) is probably one of the worst ideas this company can/will implement.
There's shooting yourself in the foot - and then there's this.
This is the equivalent of telling us that the obviously spiked drink you're trying to serve us isn't poisonous - and then drinking it in front of us in a feeble attempt to prove us wrong.
We know it's poison. You know it's poison. You know the consequences of using poison - and yet you've strapped us onto a table and are getting ready to waterboard us with it anyway.
You do this, and your userbase will die - and with it, you. What was once considered a mighty mountain will crumble into oblivion, blown away by the winds of time.
(And don't try to "Princess Bride" your way out of this - iocane powder is a far simpler toxin to endure than GenAI.)
But what do I know? I'm just a sad, little Affiliate who just wants to see genuine people do real things on the Internet - and if we're really, really, lucky: these genuine people will grow to create an authentic legacy that will extend your existence in a positive direction.
...but if your objective is to be a sad, little king on a sad, little hill - then by all means: do this toxic thing. Inject GenAI on your platform. Watch your virtual oasis visited by millions transform into a digital uncanny valley viewbotted by the very algorithms used to promote "real" content.
Choose your legacy, Twitch.