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For years, the platform has been at the center of influencer culture, gaming trends, internet humor, and online communities to the point where it feels almost inseparable from modern internet culture itself. For generations that grew up online, YouTube has a certain nostalgia attached to it; almost everyone has had at least one favorite YouTuber…

Twitch has confirmed that content uploaded by streamers can be used to train Amazon’s generative AI models. The policycovers streams, stream chats, VODs, Clips, Highlights, and text and images on channels. However, creators must actively opt out if they do not want their content to be used for future training.

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 has been criticised by users after it emerged the popular streaming platform allowed their content to be used to train Amazon’s 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

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…