Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop
Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work
Twitch has introduced a control for streamers to prevent their channel content from being used by Amazon's generative AI. This feature is enabled by default, meaning that content such as livestreams, videos, clips, highlights, text, images, and chat messages could be used to improve Amazon's AI models. This includes potential use in Amazon's speech-to-text models and across other Amazon products.
However, streamers do have the option to disable this feature on their own channels, but this will not affect content used by other streamers if their settings are left enabled. Twitch's chief product officer, Mike Minton, explained that this opt-out setting by default is due to the fact that if it was set to opt-in, no streamers would participate.
Despite Amazon's ongoing use of Twitch data for AI model training since at least 2024, this new control gives Twitch creators the ability to keep their content off Amazon's generative AI training menu.
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