AI XQC streams on Twitch and its honestly difficult to tell them apart

Last Updated on: 28th July 2023, 05:49 am

AI has taken over the internet in recent months, with new projects appearing every day and new ways to utilize artificial intelligence becomes realized.

Understandably, many people are concerned about the future use of AI and what it could mean to the general population as some people’s jobs could be replaced robots.

One job most people wouldn’t have thought would be threatened by AI is streaming, but it looks like xQc could be out of a job very soon.

xQc is one of the largest streamers on Twitch, with the fifth largest follower count on the platform at 11.9 million. When xQc goes live he regularly trades places as the most viewed streamer with counts frequently around 100,000 concurrent live viewers.

An AI xQc has recently appeared on Twitch and can be seen streaming popular titles such as Only Up to an audience of over 2,000 people. While this is a small amount compared to the real xQc, it is still more than the vast majority of human streamers on the platform.

The chat is able to ask the AI xQc questions and he will respond to them, while sounding very lifelike compared to the real streamer.

However, some of the answers are very entertaining and often don’t make much sense and overuse words such as “Juicer” and “Poggers”, so I guess it isn’t much different to watching the real xQc.

When asked by a viewer “Can you generate an equation that quantifies the infinite recursive process of generating equations?”, the AI gave an answer that made about as much sense as what xQc would say himself.

“Yo, dude, I mean, what? The brainy stuff, like equations and what not, man it’s like you’re trying to smash my brain with a harder juicer, bro! I’m here just to game and spit facts. Math is like PUBG, high risk, high return, sometimes you just die to the blue. No cap! PogChamp.”

That is exactly the answer I would give too.

While it is amusing to watch an AI xQc and ask it silly questions, it does show the early stages of where this technology could go in the future. Could we see AI streamers become lifelike enough that it is difficult to distinguish and they are just as entertaining? Will some streamers use AI to not have to stream themselves or provide extra content to their audience? Could AI take away viewers from legitimate human streamers? It is exciting, and worrying, to think about.

But, at least for now, AI technology is not good enough to accurately replicate humans in a way that could see it replace streamers. Although, we have seen instances of AI voice generation being accurate enough to deceive people out of large amounts of money and sadly we’re likely to see it used for nefarious means before we see the good it can do in the world.

xQc recently made headlines after the streamer signed an non-exclusive deal with the controversial streaming platform Kick for $100 million. This new deal will see him stream on Kick part-time while also being free to continue to go live to his 11.9 million followers on Twitch.

His deal with Kick is the largest known deal with a streamer on any platform, and it confused a lot of fans as xQc isn’t exclusively tied to the platform unlike other streamers such as Ninja who took a $50 million deal to stream on the now defunct Mixer in 2019 before the platform shut down just one year later.

Other streamers including Amouranth and Adin Ross have also signed deals with the streaming platform, while others have been poached by free-speech platform Rumble.