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Twitch and Amazon face a class action lawsuit over claims that the companies used creators’ content to train generative AI.

Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch, used by many to broadcast and promote video games, is facing criticism for harnessing user data to train the generative AI models of its parent company.

The streaming platform Twitch will now use creators’ content to help train generative AI models for its parent company, Amazon. This move has inspired swift and concentrated backlash from the Twitch community, especially because creators are opted in to having their content used for this AI training by default.

Twitch is now allowing users to stop Amazon from training their generative artificial intelligence (AI) modelsusing users’ content,the popular streaming platform said.

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 gone over well, to put it mildly.

It appears Twitch has quietly started using content created by streamers, like VODs and livestreams, to help train Amazon AI models. And the only way to opt out of your content being used this way is to dig through your account’s security settings to find a toggle buried inside.