Twitch And Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers' Content
A class action filed this week accused Amazon's Twitch gaming service of using video streams to fuel its AI products without licensing or obtaining permission, reports Engadget: Earlier this month, Twitch Support posted on X that it added an option to opt out of "having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon." Shortly after, Twitch hosted an episode of its…
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Amazon's Twitch gaming service and Amazon itself, alleging that the companies used video streams from streamers to train their AI products without proper licensing or permission, according to Engadget. Twitch Support added an option for users to opt out of their content being used for generative AI training earlier this month, and Twitch's chief product officer Mike Minton explained on a Patch Notes stream that defaulting to enabled AI training instead of opt-in would result in no participation from users.
The lawsuit claims that Twitch and Amazon breached their contract by using streamers' content for free training stock for separate commercial AI products, reports Slashdot.
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