Amazon will train on Twitch streamers content by default, unless they opt out
"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."
At a glance
- techcrunch.com: Amazon will train on Twitch streamers content by default, unless they opt out
- theverge.com: Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI
- arstechnica.com: Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
The story
techcrunch.com: "If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."
theverge.com: Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. Opting out means that "your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel" won't be used in "future training" of an Amazon AI model "whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, [ ]
arstechnica.com: Twitch now lets users opt out of Amazon's use of content from their channels to train Amazon's "generative AI content models." The change, announced today, comes more than two years after a company executive confirmed that Amazon was using Twitch content for AI training. In an updated support page , Twitch confirms that users must opt out if they don’t want their “streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel [to] be used in future training of a model developed by Amazon whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, audio, images, or video.” To opt out, users must go to the proper settings at www.twitch.tv/settings/security . Read full article Comments