At its absolute best twitch is a simulacrum of a group of friends getting together on a Friday night, ordering a pizza, and playing video games while shooting the shit. Instead it's a bunch of people watching someone play a video game who they most likely will never meet and who most likely won't interact with them unless money changes hands.
By replacing the streamer with an AI you're making the simulacrum more apparent, but are you really changing anything about the nature of a twitch stream?
Wonder if AI streamers become a thing they will sell a sort of copy of the AI you can have on your phone or desktop for the added personal interaction.
Para-social relationship will alway be cancer, I will never understand why people get so invested into a streamer's life beyond what they provide, a game playthrough. Sure its fun to chat in smaller streams where your questions about the game doesn't get drowned out in a sea of desperate simps thinking they have some kind of bond with inside jokes and whatnot. At the end of the day the streamer switch off his/her pc and wouldn't think nor care about your existence and why should they? to them you're just a name and series of text who dumps money every now and then just so their text doesn't go unnoticed. The whole thing is farcical and the worst are those who willingly becomes mods, gatekeeping and policing subject and speech. fucking pathetic.
At its absolute best twitch is a simulacrum of a group of friends getting together on a Friday night, ordering a pizza, and playing video games while shooting the shit.
I watch literally one stream that's as close to that as possible, it's not on Twitch, and I'm gatekeeping the everliving fuck out of it so it's not found out. Also, fuck Twitch.
The ideal of AI gaming with "friends" will be less like twitch and more like Joi in 2049, but instead of a holographic waifu it's your fat neckbeard friend who is scarily good at roleplaying murderhobos. You don't even need to buy him real pizza.
At its absolute best twitch is a simulacrum of a group of friends getting together on a Friday night, ordering a pizza, and playing video games while shooting the shit. Instead it's a bunch of people watching someone play a video game who they most likely will never meet and who most likely won't interact with them unless money changes hands.
By replacing the streamer with an AI you're making the simulacrum more apparent, but are you really changing anything about the nature of a twitch stream?
Wonder if AI streamers become a thing they will sell a sort of copy of the AI you can have on your phone or desktop for the added personal interaction.
Maybe based on twitch subs or some other system
Considering Gatebox was around 6 years ago, that's almost definitely what will happen.
The original Gatebox, if you haven't seen it before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcKaNqfykg
Ahh I remember when I made a subreddit about this and it got taken over by retards.
I think that would break the illusion too much, at least to start. I would expect it to be hyper-responsive on twitter/reddit/discord/etc...
Para-social relationship will alway be cancer, I will never understand why people get so invested into a streamer's life beyond what they provide, a game playthrough. Sure its fun to chat in smaller streams where your questions about the game doesn't get drowned out in a sea of desperate simps thinking they have some kind of bond with inside jokes and whatnot. At the end of the day the streamer switch off his/her pc and wouldn't think nor care about your existence and why should they? to them you're just a name and series of text who dumps money every now and then just so their text doesn't go unnoticed. The whole thing is farcical and the worst are those who willingly becomes mods, gatekeeping and policing subject and speech. fucking pathetic.
I watch literally one stream that's as close to that as possible, it's not on Twitch, and I'm gatekeeping the everliving fuck out of it so it's not found out. Also, fuck Twitch.
The ideal of AI gaming with "friends" will be less like twitch and more like Joi in 2049, but instead of a holographic waifu it's your fat neckbeard friend who is scarily good at roleplaying murderhobos. You don't even need to buy him real pizza.