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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.

The class action suit claims that Amazon never obtained consent from Twitch streamers to be used to train its AI models.

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

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…

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.

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…

Lev Shevtsov12 August 2026 20:43

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