![]() > if they’re not storing it the details about the stream then their target audience would agree that they’re not watching and storing data. Maybe in the future that will change, but unless Mountain Dew has a time machine hidden in their office, "language evolves" is not an excuse. The visual data from the video output is being piped into an image recognition engine the vast majority of the general public would call that "watching". This is not a niche interpretation of what it means to watch a video. ![]() If you asked pretty much anyone on the street in any context "an AI is going to scan a video and locate on object, is it 'watching' the video" - they would say yes. Language evolves organically through public usage, not via soda FAQs. But that doesn't mean I'll be trespassing, because apparently words mean nothing at all and I can say anything I want. I am going to sneak into the house of whatever advertiser wrote this and put spiders in their bed. But how little do you have to think of your target audience to instead decide to give an answer that is this blatantly a lie and to think that it will fool people? And sure, streams are public and Mountain Dew can crawl them and they could have given an answer of "yes, we are, they're public". And all of that data processing is happening serverside so I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say there's probably other metadata being preserved too. Mountain Dew is watching the stream and is keeping data: at the very least it's storing data about which streams had Mountain Dew in them and which streamers have opted in and out. ![]() This is not how words work, you can't just change definitions like this, you are writing a FAQ not a post-modernist art essay. What the are you talking about? If an image-recognition algorithm is crawling livestreams and verifying objects inside of them, that does mean you are watching the streams and keeping data. > The MTN DEW RAID AI will begin crawling all concurrent Gaming livestreams from December 1 - December 8, but that doesn’t mean the AI is watching your streams or keeping any data. > Will the RAID AI crawl a stream without the streamer’s permission? I should probably eat a hearty breakfast though. I'll happily eat my words if I turn out to be wrong. In that very specific scenario, aye this might be an ok deal.įor anyone else this is a tiny chance at 15 minutes of stress before dropping back to their usual view count. Chances are though even those people will be leaving for the next thing to watch quickly unless the streamer has something super entertaining going on. ![]() There may still be a handful of viewers left that do click through to the stream, who don't speedrun getting banned from the stream, who do watch the stream. Of those people that do click through, a lot of them are going to be trolls looking to wind streamers up or otherwise harass them. Of the people looking at the homepage almost none of them will click through to the stream as they're doing something else like looking for their favourite streamer or en-route to their settings or something like that. Factoring in timezones this brings the slots available down a fair bit unless the streamer decides to do a 36 hour stream.Įven if they win one it'll bring concurrent viewers aye, but these are viewers that just happen to be visiting the homepage, not looking to watch streams from the carousel. The exposure is a chance at one of the 15 minute slots on Twitch homepage in exchange for up to 6 days of displaying a mtn dew logo on their stream (the longer it's displayed, the more chance they have at these limited slots)Įven if a person does win a slot they'll have to be live to use it during the prize portion of the campaign. Pepsico is free to issue Twitch bounties for certain things or buy normal ad slots for pre-rolls or mid-stream ads if they want to remind everyone that their neon green slop exists. And what the streamer opts into is nothing more than being used as an advertising vessel for bad sugar water for free. The AI scanning as part of this campaign is happening whether someone opts in or not. The comments by this bot announcing this campaign probably got it flagged to Twitch by thousands of viewers and banned in thousands of channels, because it's the same behavior seen by other bots trying to entice you with "free gaming gear" or "hot singles in your area". If I want to watch the streamer on Twitch ad free, I subscribe, which kicks 50% or 30% over to Twitch to pay to keep the lights on. Chat is a space free of ads, because there is no way to opt out without closing chat, and if I do that, I have literally no reason to watch the streamer on Twitch, since I can probably catch their VOD on YouTube the next day. Spamming advertising in chat is a bannable offense.
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