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i don't imagine there are news outlets that would be interested since it only affects twitch streamers and we are lower than dirt, but the new AI "content warnings" that twitch has introduced for sponsored streams are crazy. it monitors what you're saying and pings you if you say a word like "beer"

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from what i can tell there are zero consequences to this. you just get a little warning that you have to acknowledge. why does it exist, then? and why wouldn't they be explicit about it? perhaps because keeping it vague means they can threaten enforcement for something they would never enforce

denying a streamer payment because AI flagged what they said would create 100x more work for them and twitch support is already completely cooked. this way frightens streamers into being stilted little robots without them having to get into the difficult work of arbitrating what their contract says

anyway check out my sponsored stream tonight, i'll be playing gears of war: e-day and repeatedly saying "I am big time honking on a bong" to see what happens

It's cool that playing a video game sponsored by the US army where you blow up people's heads with huge munitions is ad safe but if you think about gay stuff or alcohol you will be sent to The Torture Zone

Do you actually have to honk the bong for the threat to be considered valid? Can they flag you for false advertising if you just say it?

i increasingly get the feeling like there’s a systemic rollout of things like this to remind us that we’re always being watched passively, that are meant to start making people self-filter their anger at injustice until it becomes a polite, ignorable request instead of a loud, public demand

your comment on the threat of enforcement of the unenforceable is spot on. a reminder that they can arbitrarily take away our access to the primary means by which we maintain our broader social lives if they feel like we were too rude when criticizing war crimes

they’re straight up just never going to say what it was that stefan and/or jesse did to earn a week’s suspension during the most important week of the year for streamer revenue. they don’t want us to know what we can avoid saying, because then we’ll toe the line instead of tripping over it

I'm sure no f'd regimes on this continent or any other would be interested in other, even more nefarious applications of stuff like this or even using it nearly as-is to target anyone for any reason! #ILoveGames #FunnyStreams #ApocalypseFun

Orwell failed to see that the all watching being of the future would actually be a whiny automated little brother waiting to report you to the mods

(doing a sponsored stream for pop tarts) i would unalive for a dada drink right now (i die to an elden ring boss that was at 1 hp) FUcking shit fUCK ASS