Someone raids your stream or another creator comes into your chat, and a shoutout gives your viewers a quick way to discover that person's channel. Twitch does have its own built-in /shoutout command. In practice, though, if you've spent much time around Twitch communities, you're probably very familiar with !so. It's commonly used with chat bots and has become one of those commands that many streamers and moderators type almost automatically.

Twitch has confirmed that channel content can be used to train generative AI models developed by Amazon, which owns Twitch. The content involved can include material creators publish through their channels, including streams and videos. This isn't the same thing as Twitch simply using AI features. Twitch already uses machine-learning and AI-powered systems for things like recommendations, discovery, moderation and other platform features. What's causing the current cont