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Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop

Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work

Twitch has given streamers a switch to stop their channel content being fed into Amazon's generative AI machinery, but naturally it is turned on by default.

If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in. That's honestly the answer. So it's going to be on by default

The Amazon-owned streaming platform has added a "Training for Generative AI" control to channel settings, allowing streamers to opt out of having their content used for future GenAI model improvements.

With the setting enabled, Twitch says channel content – including livestreams, videos on demand, clips, highlights, text, images, and chat messages – may be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. The benefits aren't confined to Twitch either, as the company says the resulting models may also be used elsewhere in the Amazon empire.

For example, Twitch saysaudio...

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