Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out

When Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to train AI models in the first place.

Amazon is now using content on Twitch to train artificial intelligence models — a move that has garnered fierce backlash from both streamers and users on the interactive livestreaming platform.

Twitch users have spotted a "Training for Generative AI" option in creator settings that's on by default. Here's how to turn it off.

Users of the popular streaming platform criticised allowing Amazon to use their data by dafault.

Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work

Twitch channels are quietly being used to train Amazon’s AI models. Here’s how creators can opt out.

And why the company didn't make the feature opt-in. HknKirmizi/Shutterstock Twitch recently confirmed it will use streamers' content to train its generative AI models. The Amazon-owned platform is automatically opting all users in to the feature. And in the most predictable turn of events possible: the move has not gon

Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."

"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."