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Twitch enables opt-out setting for Amazon AI training on streamer content
Twitch has introduced a default-enabled setting allowing Amazon to use streamer content for generative AI training, requiring users to manually opt out if they object.
Key points
- The setting is enabled by default, requiring streamers to manually disable it to opt out.
- Twitch acknowledged the opt-out approach was chosen because few would opt in voluntarily.
- The training applies to content across Amazon's generative AI models.
- The opt-out setting was recently added following speculation about AI training practices.
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