Twitch at its very inception was made to be a hub where people share their passions, whether that's for gaming, visual art, writing, cooking, or other forms of discussion. A platform by the people for the people, as they say.
All this AI craze has done in recent years is turn genuine passion and creativity into stolen data meant to vomit out very subpar products (and that's putting it as nicely as I could) purely for the sake of profit. These decisions should have never even left the drafts folder, much less be entertained as a possibility.
For all this talk about detecting and eliminating bot viewers, this will only start a wave of bot creators that will drown out what little discoverability and sense of community that's left on this platform. The first best decision is to never implement all these data-scraping programs to begin with, and the second best decision is to keep them opt-out as a default.
Twitch at its very inception was made to be a hub where people share their passions, whether that's for gaming, visual art, writing, cooking, or other forms of discussion. A platform by the people for the people, as they say.
All this AI craze has done in recent years is turn genuine passion and creativity into stolen data meant to vomit out very subpar products (and that's putting it as nicely as I could) purely for the sake of profit. These decisions should have never even left the drafts folder, much less be entertained as a possibility.
For all this talk about detecting and eliminating bot viewers, this will only start a wave of bot creators that will drown out what little discoverability and sense of community that's left on this platform. The first best decision is to never implement all these data-scraping programs to begin with, and the second best decision is to keep them opt-out as a default.