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Artificial intelligence is here to stay, a sad reality that we must learn to adapt to. With that in mind, we believe that the most important thing right now is to start questioning how large corporations use these emerging technologies to create new content and train their AI models.

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Twitch confirmed this week that parent company Amazon is training generative AI models on the platform’s livestream content, and that streamers are automatically opted in unless they manually turn the setting off. The disclosure, madeiate backlash from the platform’s creator community

We’ve seen a number of wild things regarding AI and the push that companies are making with it over the past few years. Previously we saw YouTube editing people’s videos with AI despite them not asking for it. This isn’t an issue that’s been locked to just YouTube, either.

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Twitch uses its streamers’ content to train Amazon’s generative AI models. The setting for it turned up in account settings on August 12, and it is switched on by default for every user. Anyone who does not want their material feeding Amazon’s models has to act. There was no email about it, and no notice…

Twitch streamers’ content is now feeding Amazon’s artificial intelligence machine. In a move that has sparked intense outrage across the gaming community, Twitch has confirmed that it is automatically harvesting user content to train Amazon’s generative AI models. Under this new mandate, live streams, video-on-demand archives, clips, chat logs, images, and channel text are fed…

TL;DR: Twitch now defaults streamers into allowing generative AI training on their content-streams, VODs, Clips, Highlights and channel text/images-and requires users to opt out in settings. Amazon and Twitch face heavy backlash; Twitch says opt-in would yield few participants. Chat data follows the streamer’s opt-out choice. Voice: DefaultSpeed 0:00 / 2:24 Use left and right…

Twitch faces ‘furious’ streamer backlash as Amazon AI training opt-out appears enabled by default Twitch is facing criticism after a new setting appeared to allow Amazon to use streamer channel content to train generative AI models. The setting is turned on by default, meaning streamers have to change their privacy settings if they do not…

Streaming service Twitch has introduced an account setting that allows users to opt out of having their channel content used to train Amazon’s generative AI models. By default, this option is enabled for all users, and the platform has only announced the ability to opt out.