Twitch star Ninja believes AI will kill streaming unless drastic measures are taken to filter out real and fake clips.
Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins is one of the most prolific streamers of all time, and one point, ran the most-subscribed Twitch channel on the platform.
While he rose to prominence with his Fortnite broadcasts, his once-meteoric popularity has since dwindled, largely due to briefly leaving Twitch to sign with Microsoft’s ill-fated streaming competitor, Mixer.
Now, the veteran streamer is sounding the alarm on AI content and is convinced that it’ll make streaming “impossible” if it continues to advance without some big changes.
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Ninja demands big AI change before fake videos kill streaming
Amid the rise of Google’s Veo3 AI video generator, users discovered that they could create convincing clips of fake streamers with gameplay included.
In one viral video that was viewed over 2M times, Veo3 was able to create a fake Fortnite streamer reacting to a victory royale. And while it’s still a little rough, especially when it comes to generating gameplay, it shows how far AI videos have come in such little time.
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According to Ninja, this is a massive problem.
“I’m going to make this statement right now, dude. Unless they make it so that every single AI video, like those Veos, unless there’s a watermark that cannot be removed or scrubbed or covered up, within the next six months to a year, streaming will be impossible,” he explained.
Blevins continued, warning that there would be an abundance of deepfake videos and fake drama being spread.
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“It’s gonna be over. It’s gonna be GGs,” he added. “There’s going to be AI of me saying the most racist, crazy, ridiculous, unhinged sh*t and there will be people who think it’s real. There’s going to be enough people. A video here, a video there, a video here… it’s just going to be over.”
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“Imagine all the people that are clickbaiting and trying to ruin streamers’ careers already. Imagine if they just type in a prompt.”
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According to Blevins, it might reach a point where he is forced to announce that he’d quit the internet completely and that any video of him after that just isn’t real.
While viewers confusing AI videos for real streamer content hasn’t been too much of an issue as of yet, that hasn’t stopped people from mistaking AI for real people.
Earlier in 2025, a radio station in Australia secretly used an AI host, and it took months for people to learn the host was completely AI generated.
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