The initial policy update was intended to address feedback from art streamers who felt the existing restrictions were limiting. However, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy acknowledged that the company had gone too far with the change, as it became difficult to distinguish between digital art and photography. Despite the reversal, Twitch's dress code policy remains unaffected, and the company has no plans to make further changes to its new sexual content policy.
Key takeaways:
- Twitch is reversing its "artistic nudity" policy that allowed streamers to show illustrated, animated or sculpted renderings of nudity, due to concerns over the volume of AI-generated photorealistic nudes flooding the platform's art category.
- Depictions of both real and fictional nudity are banned on Twitch again, but nudity in Mature-rated games is still allowed.
- The initial update to the nudity policy was intended to allow creators to "utilize the human form in their art," but it led to a gray area between what was and wasn't allowed on the platform.
- Despite the reversal, Twitch's dress code policy remains unchanged, and the company isn't adding further changes to the new sexual content policy.