Genuinely the worst decision I've ever seen Twitch make, and that's a high bar to clear. Generative AI is destroying our environment, destroying communities, stealing work by actual people for soulless recreations and plagiarism, and actively hurts the ability to think for those who use it. There is no part of generative AI that is beneficial to any of us; it's even consistently getting more expensive than just paying people for the same work (that they then do better than the AI does). It shouldn't even be a part of the site in any form, but if you for some reason decide to keep it, then it should at least be opt-in instead of opt-out. We should also be able to decline *any and all* parts of it, not just some of it, both as a viewer and as a streamer. If I don't want my chats included in AI scraping as a chatter, I shouldn't have to trust that a streamer has turned it off on their channel beforehand. I don't even care if that's not practical to make that kind of change, I shouldn't be forced to contribute like that.
Genuinely the worst decision I've ever seen Twitch make, and that's a high bar to clear. Generative AI is destroying our environment, destroying communities, stealing work by actual people for soulless recreations and plagiarism, and actively hurts the ability to think for those who use it. There is no part of generative AI that is beneficial to any of us; it's even consistently getting more expensive than just paying people for the same work (that they then do better than the AI does). It shouldn't even be a part of the site in any form, but if you for some reason decide to keep it, then it should at least be opt-in instead of opt-out. We should also be able to decline *any and all* parts of it, not just some of it, both as a viewer and as a streamer. If I don't want my chats included in AI scraping as a chatter, I shouldn't have to trust that a streamer has turned it off on their channel beforehand. I don't even care if that's not practical to make that kind of change, I shouldn't be forced to contribute like that.