Twitch under fire for labeling VTubers as AI: \u201cIt\u2019s really insulting\u201d Twitch: NyannersTwitch has come under fire after a misguided tweet celebrating the achievements of VTubers in 2022 compared the virtual creators to artificial intelligence (AI), with many top talents labeling the wording as \u201cinsulting\u201d and ignorant of the medium. VTubing has taken off on Twitch, cracking into the top five tags on the platform in 2022. To show their respect for the virtual medium\u2019s growth across the year, they put together a little video highlighting top creators and their work. The 27-second clip included snippets of the platform\u2019s top VTubers, including VShojo\u2019s Nyanners and Silvervale, Streamy winner CodeMiko, and independent talent Uguubear. However the caption attached to the tweet has riled up VTubers, with the platform comparing the real creators behind the avatars to artificial intelligence. \u201cThe VTuber tag brought both avatars and viewers together in one great space, with VTubers growing and creating AI like never before,\u201d it read. \u201cOh, and some amazing characters and personalities came along with it.\u201d Many top VTubers on Twitch said the remark about VTubers \u201ccreating AI\u201d was completely misrepresentative of the medium as a whole and showed ignorance on the platform\u2019s side. \u201cTwitch I appreciate the love, but respectfully VTubing has nothing to do with AI at all,\u201d VShojo Business Development Manager \u2018Tomathin\u2019 wrote in reply. \u201cWe don\u2019t create AI and we aren\u2019t AI,\u201d Techy continued. \u201cWe\u2019re real time animated characters. We\u2019re real people.\u201d \u201cMy character is a rogue artificial intelligence but I\u2019m not related to any IRL AI stuff,\u201d girl_dm_ added. Some poked fun at the fact the tweet sounded like it was written by an AI itself: \u201cFunny how it sounds like an AI with a vague understanding of VTubing wrote this,\u201d Lord Aethelstan said. \u201cNice try buddy.\u201d The tweet, which went live on December 23 and has been viewed 1.6 million times, still remains live at the time of publishing. There are more than 3,000 quote tweets and replies criticizing Twitch\u2019s wording as diminishing the work of one of its biggest user bases. While it\u2019s recognition for the space as a whole, VTubers just want to be accepted and acknowledged properly for their work, rather than have their achievements reduced to AI. \u201cAI art is hurting not just VTubers, but a lot of the talented artists that create and work with VTubers, so it\u2019s really insulting and diminishing to mention it like this,\u201d Tomathin said. \u201cModels take months of work from different people to act specific ways and do specific things for the personality behind it. If VTubers are AI because we use a software that has machine learning to track the face then I think that\u2019s a diminishment of the space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch under fire for labeling VTubers as AI: \u201cIt\u2019s really insulting\u201d Twitch: NyannersTwitch has come under fire after a misguided tweet celebrating the achievements of VTubers in 2022 compared the virtual creators to artificial intelligence (AI), with many top talents labeling the wording as \u201cinsulting\u201d and ignorant of the medium. VTubing has taken off on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}