Twitch streamers can now refuse to let Amazon train its genAI models on their content
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Twitch has added an account setting allowing streamers to stop Amazon, its parent company, from using their channel content to train generative AI models. The change matters because the setting had previously been enabled by default, leaving creators to actively opt out if they did not want their work used for this purpose.
Disabling the “Training for Generative AI” toggle prevents future use of streams, video-on-demand content, clips, chat messages, and other channel text or images for generative AI training. Twitch says content may still support other AI or machine-learning features, such as automated captions and safety tools; comments made in another streamer’s chat are governed by that streamer’s setting.
- Twitch streamers can now opt out of Amazon’s generative AI training.
- The opt-out covers streams, clips, chats and channel media.
- Some AI safety and accessibility features remain unaffected.
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Twitch is a live-streaming platform where people broadcast video online, often playing games, chatting, making music or showing other creative work. It is owned by Amazon, and streamers can earn money through subscriptions, advertising, donations and brand deals.
Generative AI is technology that learns patterns from large amounts of material to produce new text, images, audio or video. Training such systems can involve analysing streams, recordings, chat posts and other material created or shared by users.
The issue concerns how much control creators have over the use of their work by the platform that hosts it. Twitch also uses artificial intelligence for practical services such as captions and detecting harmful content, which are separate from training systems designed to generate new material.
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