During the same livestream, Mary Kish, Twitch’s head of community, explained how streamers can disable generative AI training through their channel settings.
To opt out of Twitch generative AI training, open your Streamer Dashboard, go to the Settings tab, select Security and Privacy, then scroll down to the Generative AI Training option and switch it off.
Disabling the setting prevents Amazon from using streams, clips, images, chat messages and other channel content to train generative AI models.
However, some Twitch users reported that the AI training option was automatically enabled again after they had turned it off and returned to their account settings.
“I went in, turned it off, went out, turned it back in, and it was still turned on,” one user said, external.
Kish said collecting user data to train AI systems has become an industry standard.
“We don’t expect you to be happy or excited about this. We don’t expect anyone to react favorably to this,” she added.
Hundreds of viewers criticized Twitch’s AI training policy in the livestream’s chat.
“I don’t think anyone would want to give our creativity or content to AI, so I don’t think anyone would opt in,” one viewer wrote.
Another viewer said Twitch had an “opportunity to set an industry standard” by rejecting the collection of user data for AI training.
It remains unclear when Amazon began collecting Twitch user data to train its AI models.
During the broadcast, Twitch executive Minton said he did not know whether user data had already been collected for AI training. He also said he was unaware of what Amazon had done “in terms of training the model and what users used and didn’t use.”
Amazon acquired Twitch in 2014 for approximately $1 billion (£740 million). The company operates several AI services and is investing heavily in the technology as it competes with Google, Meta and other major technology companies.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk