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. Twitch has updated its account settings to let streamers opt out of having their content used to help train the artificial intelligence models of Twitch's parent company, Amazon. Although the move has reassured some creators, it remains unclear exactly when the streaming platform began using the posts, streams, and videos of its users to train Amazon's systems. The revelation is raising new concerns about how big tech companies handle their users' data . The opt-out process is simple.