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

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…

Twitch Dmytro DzhuhalykAuthor of news articles for the Mezha. I write about things I am actively interested in, namely technology, games, and cinema. 24 August, 13:50

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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.

A Twitch streamer has filed a proposed class action accusing Twitch Interactive and parent company Amazon of using millions of creators’ livestreams, videos, clips and chat logs to train Amazon’s generative AI products without consent or compensation.

Streamer Warren Pandisia has filed a class-action lawsuit against the live streaming service Twitch and its parent company, Amazon. Pandisia claims that his videos were used without his permission to train AI. Twitch complaint 08.20.2026 final – pandiscia-v-twitch-amazon-complaint.pdf (PDF file)

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