Following the creator camp, Twitch promises further updates about how its approach will evolve. The new policies are to be implemented this month. The creation, promotion, or viewing of this content is not welcome on Twitch." Twitch is somewhat stepping into the unknown in terms of taking a proactive approach in dealing with it and acknowledges that, outside of the obviously horrible stuff, there are going to be incidents with more nuance: "Not all synthetically-created content is sexual in nature, nor is all of it non-consensual But one thing is clear: when it’s used to create synthetic NCEI, that nuance disappears. These are obviously nascent technologies and can be used for things other than synthetic NCEI, and much of what people create with them is going to be amusing or weird or innocent rather than awful. Twitch has also assembled a list of resources (opens in new tab) that should be a first port of call for anyone affected by synthetic NCEI. It will be led by Zara Ward, an expert on NCEI and a manager at the Revenge Porn helpline, as well as a streamer herself, and members of the Twitch safety team. Twitch is now to host a creator camp on March 14 to gather further community and expert perspectives on how to deal with these problems in future. Even if that NCEI is shown only briefly, or, for example, shown to express your outrage or disapproval of the content, it will be removed and will result in an enforcement. We’re updating our Adult Nudity policy to include synthetic NCEI. We’re updating our Adult Sexual Violence and Exploitation policy to make it more clear that intentionally promoting, creating, or sharing synthetic NCEI can result in an indefinite suspension on the first offense.Ģ. Synthetic NCEI is prohibited under current Twitch policies and of course will continue to be so, but the wording of two site policies is going to be changed in the light of January's events:ġ. This all matters because language is the building block of policy. Finally on the matter of terminology, Twitch points out that "deepfake" is something of a contemporary buzzword but not necessarily an accurate description of the methods used to generate content such as this.
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