Overview
- Twitch added a default opt‑in toggle Wednesday that lets Amazon use channel material — including live streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, images and channel text — to train generative AI models.
- Users can disable the feature in Settings > Security & Privacy by turning off the “Training for Generative AI” toggle but the control is buried and enabled for all accounts by default.
- Opting out prevents future inclusion in Amazon’s generative‑model training but does not stop Twitch’s AI features such as AutoMod or automatic captioning, which Twitch says do not retain content for model generation.
- Twitch executives defended the design on a company livestream, with CPO Mike Minton saying the setting is opt‑out because “if it was opt‑in, nobody would opt in,” and creators have responded with intense backlash and mass opt‑outs.
- The move deepens wider industry questions about platform transparency, creator consent and whether Twitch or Amazon already used historical content for model training, which could prompt legal and policy scrutiny and change creator behavior.