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I would advise everyone to look into privacy laws of your respective country. I know that in several European countries, taking pictures/video/voice recordings of someone without their express consent is prohibited by law. Reach out to consumer protection and labour union organizations if you can.
Considering that Twitch has NOT asked for our consent for this, and has not even given us a heads-up let alone a notice of this function being rolled out, and opted EVERYONE in by default, they are possibly in violation of the privacy laws of several countries.An error occurred while saving the comment Sabletoothed
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I would also like to mention that taking someone's content without their knowledge let alone consent is THEFT, and taking someone's VOICE and FACE without their knowledge or consent is a violation of PRIVACY LAWS in several countries. Opting everyone in without as much of a SHRED of information to the affected people whose FACES AND VOICES YOU ARE TAKING will be a FEAST for privacy lawyers.
Tread carefully, Twitch, you're walking on thin legal ice if you don't send out a notification about this, and quickly.An error occurred while saving the comment Sabletoothed
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Are you absolute buffoons serious? Quietly rolling this garbage out and making it automatically opt into it, despite knowing FULL WELL that everyone hates it?
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Besides the incredibly harmful impact that genAI has on the environment, people's health, hardware prices, energy consumption and, soon enough the incredible economic cratering that the bubble will leave behind once it blows up, genAI also is incredibly harmful to creation.
It's theft. It's mashing together patterns with no soul.
And on top of that, genAI-based translation, predictive text, etc. are also very often not only wrong, but can also be harmful to the person that they are slapped onto.
If you MUST try to be a Fad-Train Andy, allow streamers and viewers to opt out of AI features. It's not popular with people, especially in a more tech-savvy space like live streaming. Why do you think Microsoft, Google, Apple etc. are forcing AI features into everyone's face? They know nobody wants these features, but they have to justify the billions of dollars they spent on this garbage to the shareholders.
Don't be blind to the needs of the people who made you the company you are, to the needs and wants of your partners and viewers.
Don't bring genAI onto this platform. It will only hurt you.
I'm going to call up the Chamber of Labour and the Austrian consumer protection agency tomorrow and inquire if the non-consensual usage of my face and voice is illegal, and inquire as to how I can sue you through EU law if it is, indeed, illegal.