Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out
Twitch has updated its account settings to let streamers opt out of having their content used to help train the artificial intelligence models of Twitch’s parent company, Amazon.
Although the move has reassured some creators, it remains unclear exactly when the streaming platform began using the posts, streams, and videos of its users to train Amazon’s systems. The revelation is raising new concerns about how big tech companies handle their users’ data.
The opt-out process is simple. From the Twitch website or mobile app, click on your account avatar, select Settings, and then go to the Security and Privacy section in the menu. There, you’ll find the Generative AI Training option, where you can disable the use of your content for that purpose.
In the language next to the toggle, Twitch notesthat “disabling this option does not prevent Twitch and Amazon from using your channel’s content for other...
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