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Millions of Twitch streamers have accused the Amazon-owned platform of using its streams and chats to train AI products.

Streamers who have spent years building their channels — the VODs, the late-night marathons, the chat chaos, the clips the community clipped and re-clipped — may be surprised to learn that archive could reportedly be feeding Amazon’s AI pipeline. Twitch has added a setting called “Training for Generative AI“ that lets you opt out of…

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 has added a setting letting streamers stop Amazon using their streams, clips and chat to train generative AI, buried in security settings and off by default. Chief product officer Mike Minton explained the default plainly, saying that if it were opt-in, nobody would opt in.

The setting arrived quietly, tucked into a security menu most streamers never open: a single toggle that decides whether everything they broadcast becomes fuel for Amazon‘s artificial intelligence. On Twitch, that toggle is already flipped on. To keep your work out of the training data, you have to know it exists, find it, and switch…

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.

The conversation around cloud gaming has returned to the spotlight after Amazon’s head of gaming, Jeff Gattis, argued that rising technology costs could persuade more people to stream games instead of buying increasingly expensive hardware. His comments come as Amazon expands Luna’s reach by integrating the service into Prime Video, a move aimed at exposing…

Amazon has announced that its Luna video game streaming service will be incorporated into Prime Video, allowing Prime subscribers to play games directly through the video app. It follows similar moves at Netflix, where gaming titles were made available as part of the main video streaming service, leading to a “strong uptake” by players as…

Amazon’s original superhero satire “The Tick” has quietly found a new streaming home, giving fans another chance to revisit one of the most offbeat comic adaptations of the past decade, and one of a number of binge-worthy Prime Video originals. Originally released on Prime Video between 2016 and 2019, the series built a loyal following…