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  1. Make all AI features optional, and opt-out by default.

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    incarna_ commented  · 

    To whom it may concern,

    I have been on Twitch for many, many years now. Both as a member of multiple communities and as an occasional streamer myself. I've engaged with a variety of different people from so many different backgrounds, each with their own quirks and....eccentricities, for lack of a better word, that make them stand out from everyone else. These communities are what have brought me back on Twitch every day. To engage with these people, what they want to show to us, and what we want to give in return.

    Ever since generative AI or just AI use in general has been introduced to the consumer market, 95% of people have had the same reaction: "stop". Disregarding the fact that it is taking work that came directly from people who put their blood, sweat, and tears into building large communities, even with smaller streamers you have people like artists and musicians that this would be taking from. This is not work that can simply be replicated, not even by other people let alone AI. There's no algorithm or calculus for what makes streaming so enjoyable to engage with on both sides. It's a feeling. A feeling that cannot be truly replicated by an AI. Speaking from a wholly logistical standpoint, you will just have a worse product.

    If you are going to do this, and I would very much prefer that you stopped this project entirely, at very least let people be opted out by default. Let people CHOOSE to let their content be used to teach AI. They are already providing their time and energy with no strings attached and no payments required. Let them at least control how that time and energy is spent.

    AI may be in our future, but it cannot replace what has always been there since the dawn of humankind: our abilities to create and commune. To share in something that is special not just to a handful of people, but to all of us. Don't try to take that away from us.

    Respectfully,
    Incarna