‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’: Amazon’s AI is being trained on your Twitch streams unless…
- Twitch has revealed that user streams are training Amazon’s AI
- You have to actively opt out to prevent this from happening
- The community has reacted with fury over the move
If there’s one thing a sizeable proportion of the population hates more than artificial intelligence (AI), it’s being opted in to having their data automatically fed into an AI for training. Yet that’s exactly what’s going to happen to your Twitch streams unless you specifically opt out.
The issue came to light when the official @TwitchSupport posted on X to explain that “We’ve added a setting that lets you opt out of having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon.”
According to an FAQ on Twitch’s account settings support page, data used for training AI includes “Your stream and the stream’s chat, your VODs, your Clips, Highlights, and any text or images...
Copyright of this story solely belongs to techradar.com. To see the full text click HERE
