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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…

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.

There’s now an opt-out toggle for something that should have been opt-in to begin with.

Twitch quietly announced that it is or intends to use videos livestreamed on its platform to train Amazon’s generative AI models on Wednesday. There have been rumors about this in recent weeks, but the official confirmation comes by way of the Twitch Support X account informing streamers they can opt out of AI training. Twitch…

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