Twitch has introduced a toggle allowing streamers to opt out of having their content used to train Amazon's generative AI models, though other AI-supported features remain active. The setting is currently on by default for users.
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Twitch users <a href="https://x.com/TwitchSupport/status/2087572924450455558?s=20">can now opt out</a> of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. Opting out means that "your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel" won't be used in "future training" of an Amazon AI model "whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, audio, images, or video," <a href="https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/twitch-account-settings?language=en_US#FAQ">according to a Twitch support page</a>.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Other "AI-supported" features like captions and safety tools will still function if you opt-out of generative AI training. However, if you participate in a chat on another person's stream, "their opt-out preferences govern if that chat can be used for training," Twitch …</p>
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# Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI
Source: [https://www.theverge.com/tech/979112/twitch-streamers-can-now-opt-out-from-training-amazons-ai](https://www.theverge.com/tech/979112/twitch-streamers-can-now-opt-out-from-training-amazons-ai)
Flip the new Twitch toggle if you don’t want your content to be used to train Amazon’s generative AI content models\.
Flip the new Twitch toggle if you don’t want your content to be used to train Amazon’s generative AI content models\.
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Twitch users[can now opt out](https://x.com/TwitchSupport/status/2087572924450455558?s=20)of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon’s generative AI models\. Opting out means that “your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel” won’t be used in “future training” of an Amazon AI model “whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, audio, images, or video,”[according to a Twitch support page](https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/twitch-account-settings?language=en_US#FAQ)\.
Other “AI\-supported” features like captions and safety tools will still function if you opt\-out of generative AI training\. However, if you participate in a chat on another person’s stream, “their opt\-out preferences govern if that chat can be used for training,” Twitch says\.
The “Training for Generative AI” toggle is present for me in Twitch’s settings under the Security and Privacy tab\. It was toggled on when I found it, and I’ve asked Amazon if that’s the default\.
Here’s the full text of Amazon’s description for the toggle:
> Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon\. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI\-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization \(such as real\-time sponsorship campaign assistance\), viewer discovery \(such as recommendations\), and community safety \(such as AutoMod\)\.[Learn more](https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/twitch-account-settings?language=en_US)
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