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Twitch Admits ‘Nobody Would Opt-In’ To AI Training, Here’s How To Opt-Out
Forbes • • general
Key Points:
- Twitch has enabled a default setting that uses streamers' content to train Amazon AI models, requiring users to manually opt out if they do not want their content included.
- Twitch CPO Mike Minton justified the opt-out approach by stating that if the setting were opt-in, few users would participate, and claimed that auto opt-in is standard industry practice.
- There is tension within Twitch’s leadership, with the head of community acknowledging user opposition to AI training, while Minton emphasized that Twitch itself has not trained models, but Amazon may be using the content.
- The controversy reflects broader industry practices where public content is used for AI training without explicit consent, a practice defended by companies like Google under fair use and data-mining exceptions.
- Users upset by the default setting are actively disabling it via their account settings, though chat participation in others' streams remains subject to those streamers' settings, limiting full control over content use.
