New AI Tech Gives Twitch Streamers Constant, Creepy Eye Contact - Kotaku

This suite of tools is meant to help you look and sound better as you stream, with features like background removal and keyboard noise suppression.

As of this new version you can, with the push of a button, now apply fake, AI-powered eyeballs to your real human face.

And these new eyes will stare directly at the camera at all times, letting you never stop “engaging” with your audience even as you read your chat or look around at other things in your room.

Online reactions to this new tech have included people freaking out over how creepy and weird it looks and pointing out how unnatural it feels.

Even so, you can also find a lot more positive responses to the above tweet and other online examples of this strange new AI gizmo: people excited about how it will help their YouTube videos or livestreams on Twitch, and happy they can read chat or look away from the stream, while their audience is tricked into thinking they are still “engaged” with them.

To me that just seems like a really unhealthy (and unsustainable) mindset that will eventually lead to more burnout that AI-powered tech can’t fix, treat, or prevent.