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A new class-action lawsuit claims that Twitch and Amazon used millions of streamers’ content to train Amazon’s AI models without securing proper consent or offering payment. The complaint was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, with Warren Pandiscia, a Twitch creator from Connecticut, as the lead plaintiff.

Twitch and Amazon are facing a class-action lawsuit after the streaming platform rolled out a feature that automatically trains its generative AI on streamers’ content unless they manually opt out.

A Connecticut-based Twitch streamer has filed a class-action lawsuit against the platform over its recent announcement that creators’ content will automatically be used to train Amazon‘s AI products.

A streamer has taken a stand against Twitch and Amazon using his content to train AI models. Warren Pandiscia, a streamer based in Connecticut, filed a class action lawsuit earlier this week. The complaint accuses Twitch and Amazon of failing to obtain licensing or permission before using his streams and videos as a “dataset necessary…

Lawsuit seeks damages for affected streamers and an order preventing Amazon from continuing the alleged practice

A Twitch streamer has sued Twitch and Amazon in a proposed class action, claiming the companies used creators’ videos, chats and other content to train generative artificial intelligence models without their consent or compensation.

Amazon and its streaming subsidiary Twitch are facing a class action lawsuit in the United States. It was filed last Thursday by the US streamer Warren Pandiscia at the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The allegation: the company used millions of videos from the platform as training material for generative AI…

Warren Pandiscia isn’t a star. This streamer from Connecticut, followed by just over a thousand people on Twitch, has just hauled Amazon and its subsidiary into court, and he’s coming in with an angle of attack that could end up costing the platform dearly.

Earlier this month, Twitch revealed that its parent company, Amazon, uses streamers’ content for AI training unless they opt out. The move triggered backlash from the Twitch community and has now led to a lawsuit.

Amazon is facing a lawsuit over its move to train its AI models on videos people broadcast on the popular streaming platform Twitch.