Twitch embarrasses itself at Christmas – “Offensive and derogatory”

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The streaming platform Twitch praised the “Vtuber” trend on Twitter in the run-up to Christmas. That’s great and would “create artificial intelligence like never before.” The viewers shake their heads at this, Vtuber themselves are outraged by the description: they are not artificial intelligence, they are real people.

In 2022, Twitch introduced the tag “Vtuber” to identify streamers who use a “virtual avatar” to appear in front of their viewers.

Back then, a lot of people just stuck “vtuber” to their channel as a gag and that upset the real vtubers, who felt like they were being made fun of.

Chief nerd Asmongold even said at the time that “Vtubing” was like a hack for women.

What did Twitch embarrass themselves with? Now that 2022 is coming to an end, Twitch looks back on the year and sees the day as a huge success. It tweeted on December 22:

Vtuber Day brought avatars and viewers together in one great place, Vtubers grew and created AI like never before – oh, and some amazing characters and personalities were created in the process.

Then they showed Vtuber like CodeMiko, uguubear, nyannes.

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Vtuber distance themselves from artificial intelligence

What’s the criticism? The term “AI” has nothing to do with Vtubers at all, as people angrily tweeted.

  • “Twitch, I love that you guys are giving out love, but with all due respect, vtubing has nothing to do with AI at all. Artificial intelligence not only harms vtubers but also many talented artists who work for and with vtubers. So it’s really offensive and derogatory to be called that.”
  • “We do not create AI and we are not AI. We are real-time animated characters. We are humans.”
  • “My character is a rogue AI, but I’m in no way involved with any IRL AI stuff.”
  • “Funny because it sounds like this was written by an AI that only vaguely understands what vtubing even is.”

    • The situation is so tense because “AI created artwork” is currently a hot topic for many people who work in art. They see their own existence threatened by AIs.

    That’s what happened when Twitch put a woman on the Security Council who acted like a deer

    How can such a mistake happen on Twitch? Some users assume that Twitch simply made a mistake with the tweet and wanted to praise how much beautiful artwork (“art”) was created by VTuber.

    However, through auto-correction or a simple mistake, Art became artificial intelligence (“AI”) and Twitch was apparently too proud to correct or explain it in any way.

    Twitch: Melons, pandas and underpants are the preferences of an aspiring German VTuber – Who is sukidingels?

    Well, Twitch seems a bit off the mark when they congratulate themselves on a great idea, confusing “people masquerading as cartoon characters” with “artificial intelligence.”

    A particularly blatant outgrowth on the subject of vtubing:

    70-year-old advertising mascot becomes VTuber – Tony the tiger and his milk-cooled PC come to Twitch

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