Twitch has responded to worries that its new AI clipper will produce “slop,” as it has started going live to select streamers.
Clips have been an invaluable part of the Twitch sphere pretty much since the start of things. Streamers have been able to take bite-sized clips and grow in popularity as a result – even if the clips, at times, are just on-stream mistakes or flubs.
Some streamers have branched out, hiring dedicated clippers and getting them to share things across social media – accelerating that growth. It has become big business for a lot of the streaming world’s big names.
Obviously, smaller streamers can’t afford to pay people to do the work for them, and fans might not always be around to do the job while watching live. So, Twitch is launching an AI clipper tool.
Twitch’s head of product responds to AI clip worries
The AI clipper, which has a waiting list for streamers to sign up for, will automatically create and publish the most engaging moments of your stream.
This has, however, caused concern from some broadcasters, including Pirate Software. “Sick of auto-slop garbage worming its way into content creation. Will be happy when this feature dies,” he said.
Twitch’s head of product, Mike Minton, responded to him over the concerns. “Agree, slop is bad. I also think we can help the 75% of streamers that don’t have clips after a stream by using AI to find entertaining moments to clip as a starting point versus scrubbing through VOD,” he replied.
As noted, the feature is not available to everyone just yet, and is still in an alpha phase. It remains to be seen just how widespread it’ll become.
However, even though AI is becoming bigger on Twitch, CEO Dan Clancy isn’t worried that AI streamers will overtake real people.
“I think fundamentally, this idea on Twitch, AI isn’t going to substitute for our creators. The emotional attachment that viewers have is with people, and that will always be the case,” he told Bloomberg.
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