Streamers Are Telling Twitch How Much They Hate That Generative AI Training Is Opt-Out By Default
Kotaku | 14.08.2026 00:29
Yesterday, the Twitch streaming community got wind of the news that Twitch would be using their content to train Amazon’s AI models, and they didn’t get that news in the most upfront way. Instead of making a formal announcement that their content would be used in this way and giving creators the choice of whether to allow this, Twitch enabled it by default on streamers’ accounts and quietly buried the option to turn it off deep in the platform’s security settings.