Artificial intelligence is ubiquitous these days, with technologies like ChatGPT and DALL-E interfering with human artistic creativity and expression. Sometimes it gives interestingly absurd results, such as that AI generated His field-like show Nothing forever. In other cases, it feigns humanity, like the AI-powered VTuber Neuro-sama, which has recently taken to reacting to content in front of tens of thousands of Twitch chatters — and, according to its creator, plans to work with “human streamers” in of the future. On the internet, things get even weirder.
Neuro-sama may look like a typical VTuber, but the popular live streamer is actually powered by artificial intelligence. When asked via Twitter DM for details on how Neuro-sama learns and communicates, its creator Vedal simply stated that “it uses a combination of cutting-edge AI models and algorithms. Their chat AI, for example, is powered by Large Language Models.” And after theirs Twitch Channelthe VTuber “mostly” uses the C# programming language. The AI has got into trouble in the past for denying the Holocaust and saying there are no women’s rights, but Vedal has taken steps to prevent that from happening again.
“I want to reiterate that the only control I have over what Neuro-sama says in the stream (other than singing) is the ability to cancel anything that could potentially compromise the Twitch Terms of Service,” Vedal said my city. “Other than that, she’s responding to videos alone, interacting with chats alone, and loving her viewers alone.”
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Hopefully Neuro-sama’s Edgelord antics are officially over as she has focused on making reaction content. A popular form of content creation, videos react are exactly what they sound like: Twitch streamers and YouTubers sitting in front of their cameras, stringing together tons of videos and delivering their raw reactions during a live stream. It’s almost voyeuristic in a way as you peer into the mind of the creator and learn how they think about content and, in a way, the world in general.
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Twitch watchdog Jake Lucky took to Twitter to share a snap of Neuro-sama reacting to Swedish streamer Hans “Forsen” Fors getting a body Elder Ring‘S Radagon of the Golden Order And Elden beast. Lucky noted that Neuro-sama saw “an average of 5,000 concurrent viewers” as Forsen absolutely rocked his shit, but the video-on-demand (VOD) tells a very different story in terms of view count, which ranges from 85,000 to 120,000 Viewers increase depending on the video and its content.
“Forsen can’t play that well when he’s sober,” Neuro-sama said, repeating “lol” several times. “What? His reactions are hilarious.”
This reaction is a small segment of Neuro-samas February 1 live stream in which the AI-controlled VTuber watches tons of content. This includes videos such as a moose shaking off its antlers, Minecraft Stuff, other VTubers and old Markiplier clips of him playing Five nights at Freddy’s, among other things. A few times during the live stream, which attracted over 80,000 viewers, Neuro-sama watched Nothing foreveraround the clock His field-like AI generated show created by Mismatch Media using DALL-E, OpenAI GPT-3 and more. It was like AI beginning, and I have no idea what’s going on in this timeline. Is this an alternate reality? send help
I was curious how Neuro-sama queued the videos she would react to – or if she even did it herself – but Vedal told me, “The first reaction stream was mostly a test stream, so I fed videos based on that on suggestions from the Discord servers. The response from the fans was very positive and I’m happy when people are so invested in this project. In the future, I have plans to do streams where the chat can suggest videos for her to watch (after they’ve been reviewed by a moderator, of course).”
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That’s what ultimately worries me. While it’s fascinating that the AI is sophisticated enough to pose as a human Twitch streamer who responds to popular and/or interesting videos, it’s also disturbing that artificial intelligence is capable of such things. It could make entire jobs, especially in content creation, obsolete, especially as Neuro-sama grows in popularity. With almost 140,000 Twitch followers and around 42,000 YouTube subscribers— and videos on both platforms garnering tens if not hundreds of thousands of views — it might only be a matter of time before Neuro-sama crashes all your favorites. Beyond that, however, it can become difficult to separate a real VTuber from an AI-generated one. The lines between humans and technology are officially starting to blur, y’all.
When asked if Vedal thinks Neuro-sama has the potential to replace real vapers, he said, “I honestly don’t know. There seems to be an audience for it, and right now there’s room for many different forms of entertainment. There’s no reason why they couldn’t work together, she’s even planning some collaborations with human streamers soon!”
“Human streamer collaborations” is pretty dystopian shit, but maybe Neuro-sama’s popularity can give some “human streamers” a boost. I can’t help but watch Neuro-sama with curious pessimism. Growing as a content creator is difficult as you vie for attention in a competitive, unbalanced system. Monetizing your content is even harder, especially if it’s not generating the eyeballs it needs to generate revenue.
How much money Neuro-sama makes is unclear (I asked Vedal, and he declined to disclose how much revenue the streamer makes, suggesting it “wouldn’t be fair”), but one thing is clear: he plans “[take] You go to places never seen by an AI before.” AI streamers are here to stay. So get used to it.
