In what is probably the dumbest move that Twitch has done, they decided to allow generative AI to train its models on streams. This is bad for vtubers who get their models typically drawn by artists and rigged by them. It’s also bad for those who draw on stream or do crafts as well.
The other dumb move that they did in conjunction with this is not allow people to opt out easily. Even the selector is broken by Twitch saying that even opting out doesn’t allow you to actually opt out of the program.
It’s honestly a tone deaf of Twitch to do when so many artists , vtubers and streamers are against generative AI as a whole. It wasn’t even a month ago that AI company Anthropic was not only sued because they stole hundreds of older books but they also destroyed them trying to train models on them.
Many of these older books being first editions and they’ve likely done the same for art as well.
It’s honestly disappointing that a company can be so entirely tone deaf. That Twitch would decide to use generative AI and train it off of streams for what purpose?
Ultimately the better solution is to do away with generative AI. Just because it’s a shinier technology doesn’t mean that it’s better. We don’t need generative AI to generate art. That is a skill that you can master.
I just hope Twitch realizes that it’s only going to help speed run us to disaster.
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