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Recently, Avengers star Robert Downey Jr. shared his disdain for the current celebrity landscape, which has shifted from heralding movie stars to focusing on streamers, who for almost a decade have opened a lane for almost anyone to hop online and potentially become the next name in streaming. “Nowadays,” Downey explained, “people can create celebrity…

Despite significant backlash and clear communication from streamers, Twitch has gone ahead with plans to scrape their content to train Amazon‘s LLMs.

Twitch lets Amazon use creator content for generative AI training by default, sparking streamer backlash

Today Twitch announced that Amazon plans to scrape the popular livestreaming platform for AI training data. During a follow-up stream, Twitch staff attempted to answer questions and assuage users’ concerns about the overwhelmingly unpopular decision. It did not go well.

Twitch recently confirmed it will use streamers’ content to train its generative AI models. The Amazon-owned platform is automatically opting all users in to the feature. And in the most predictable turn of events possible: the move has not gone over well, to put it mildly.

Amazon just dropped a bombshell on its creator community. The tech giant confirmed it will train AI models on Twitch streamers’ content by default, forcing creators to manually opt out if they object. In a remarkably candid moment during a livestream addressing user backlash, Twitch Chief Product Officer Mike Minton admitted the quiet part out…

Lev Shevtsov12 August 2026 20:43

Twitch now lets streamers block Amazon from using their broadcasts, clips, and other channel content to train generative AI. However, it’s opt out, so here’s how to do that.

A new Twitch setting gives creators more control, but the company’s default choice has sparked a sharp backlash from its own community.

The streaming platform Twitch will now use creators’ content to help train generative AI models for its parent company, Amazon. This move has inspired swift and concentrated backlash from the Twitch community, especially because creators are opted in to having their content used for this AI training by default.