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Streamers Sue Twitch and Amazon Over AI Training Data Fiasco

A new class-action lawsuit claims that Twitch and Amazon used millions of streamers' content to train Amazon's AI models without securing proper consent or offering payment. The complaint was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, with Warren Pandiscia, a Twitch creator from Connecticut, as the lead plaintiff.

Earlier this month, Twitch quietly enabled a "Training for Generative AI" setting on all creator accounts. When toggled on, the setting allows Twitch and its parent company, Amazon, to use a channel's livestreams, video-on-demand uploads, clips, chat messages, images, and text for AI training purposes. Although Twitch added an opt-out option after public outrage, many users were still upset that the setting was enabled by default.

Central to the lawsuit's argument is that once content feeds into an AI system, creators cannot "claw back" what the complaint argues is intellectual property. It further claims Twitch and Amazon...

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SpaceX will build a second, $100B ‘Starbase’ spaceport in Louisiana

SpaceX has announced it will build a second spaceport for future launches of its Starship mega-rocket at a former Exxon property in Louisiana, ending what the company says was a seven-year search for a suitable location. The new launch site will sit along the Gulf Coast in Vermilion Parish, west

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Plastic Bottles Are Being 3D-Printed Into Edible Cookies, Yum?

One long-understood truth of environmental science is that plastic is not biodegradable. This is why recycling programs exist to begin with: both to protect the environment from harm and to save costs by reusing plastic and metals that don't need to be discarded in landfills, especially after only

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The US Just Recorded Its First 2 Measles Deaths This Year

Amid a 35-year high in US measles cases, two people in Pennsylvania have died after contracting the virus, the state’s health department confirmed on Tuesday. They are the first measles-related deaths in the country this year. Both individuals were unvaccinated residents of Lancaster County in south-central Pennsylvania, which has

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Prompt injection ranks No. 1 with OWASP and No. 12 in the incident record. The attack itself is invisible to a scan.

A CISO who sees a low CVE count and deprioritizes prompt injection is reading the scoreboard wrong. Prompt injection has held the No. 1 spot on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications for three consecutive years. When two leaders of that list checked it against 6,639 labeled real-world

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Prompt injection ranks No. 1 with OWASP and No. 12 in the incident record. The attack itself is invisible to a scan.