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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.

Twitch has introduced an opt-out setting that lets streamers stop their channel content from being used to train Amazon’s generative AI models.

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…

Asmongold has been banned on Twitch again, marking the second suspension of his year.

Middle East viewers are financially supporting Twitch creators at rates approaching those in the US, according to the company. This, despite Arabic-language channels attracting comparatively smaller audiences.

/ PR Agency: iBusinessWire Twitch’s Monetization for All update, shipped 13 May 2026, lowered the Affiliate bar from 50 followers, 7 broadcast days and 500 minutes to 25 followers, 4 broadcast days and 240 minutes in a rolling 30-day window. The fourth requirement – an average of 3 concurrent viewers – was left unchanged. Every…

A Twitch streamer says the Amazon-owned platform apologized after he was instantly hit with a 30-day ban moments after he joked about needing to “go away.”

A new suite of Twitch features gives parents the power to restrict certain features, ranging from blocking certain streams to disabling DMs. The Twitch change follows a broader trend in the gaming industry focused on protecting children.

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