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Amazon Is Training Its AI Using Twitch Videos
Twitch says the default setting will train Amazon’s models on nearly all channel content unless creators switch it off in account security settings.
- On Wednesday, Twitch quietly began feeding user streams, VODs, and clips into Amazon's AI training pipeline while hiding the opt-out toggle deep within account settings.
- Twitch automatically enrolled all users by default to improve speech-to-text models and boost Amazon's AI products, a tactic described as a 'dark pattern' that hopes users will not notice.
- During a recent livestream, chief product officer Mike Minton and head of community Mary Kish addressed the backlash, with Minton admitting the company chose default enrollment because opt-in would result in almost no participation.
- Even if you opt out, chat messages are collected from other streams unless the channel owner also blocks training, meaning Twitch continues scooping up data for Amazon's models.
- Creators seeking to protect their content must manually flip security settings themselves after Twitch failed to email users about the change, with head of community Mary Kish dismissing the concern by claiming creators do not frequently check inboxes.
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Amazon’s Twitch is using livestreams to train its generative AI, and nobody’s happy with it
Amazon indicated for the first time this week that any video broadcast via its livestreaming platform Twitch could be used to train generative AI, unless users take steps to avoid it, which has caused a significant backlash from both audiences and content creators.
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Twitch faces ‘furious’ streamer backlash as Amazon AI training opt-out appears enabled by default
Twitch is facing criticism over a new setting that allows Amazon to use streamer content for generative AI training by default. Streamers can opt out through their privacy settings. Users questioned why the option was not turned off unless creators agreed. Twitch said it is not training GenAI models itself, but the setting covers Amazon’s AI model training.
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