Full command back: nudity is banned on Twitch again.
After a recent community guidelines update that allowed “artistic nudity” on the streaming platform Twitch, the company reversed that decision in less than two days.
We’ve gone too far.
What happened? Originally designed for streaming video games, the platform has evolved significantly over the years and now attracts artists, among others. This development has necessary adjustments to the terms of use
to accommodate the creative freedom of these streamers.
The most recent change that artistic nudity
allowed, but has to close immediately massive turbulence guided:
- The art category was immediately dominated by streamers drawing naked anime characters.
- Many artists also focused on the explicit depiction of genitals.
The use of AI software to depict photorealistic nudity was particularly problematic. Some streamers took advantage of the rule change to use the Stable Diffusion software to create images of well-known streamers like Pokimane.
Less than 48 hours later, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy reverted the changes and said, dass Twitch went too far with this change.
He explained that digital depictions of nudity present a particular challenge because AI can be used to create realistic images that are almost indistinguishable from photographs. Therefore, depictions of real or fictional nudity, regardless of medium, are on Twitch banned from now on. You can find the full statement here.
An exception is nudity in video games, which remains permitted in certain titles, such as Cyberpunk 2077. Any form of artistic nudity
be it conventional art, AI art or body painting, is now strictly forbidden for the time being.
Clancy apologized for the confusion and chaos caused by the update and emphasized that it will take a few days for the Community Guidelines to be updated accordingly.
