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Twitch will train Amazon’s AI on your streams unless you find the setting

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Twitch has added a setting letting streamers stop Amazon using their streams, clips and chat to train generative AI, buried in security settings and off by default. Chief product officer Mike Minton explained the default plainly, saying that if it were opt-in, nobody would opt in.

Twitch has added a setting that stops Amazon training generative AI models on your content. It is off by default, which means the training is on. Chief product officer Mike Minton was asked why it works that way and answered directly: “If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in.”

Minton said it on a livestream this week alongside head of community Mary Kish, after streamer Zach Bussey found the toggle and the screenshot spread. He added that he is comfortable with AI training and would not opt out himself if he were a streamer.

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