Streaming platforms stories

Aug 12, 2026

Twitch confirms Amazon training AI models on livestreams by default

Twitch will now use creators' content to train Amazon's generative AI models by default, though streamers can opt out through a new toggle setting.

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▪Twitch introduced a new setting on August 12, 2026, allowing creators to manually opt out of having their streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, pictures, and text used to train Amazon's generative AI models.
▪Twitch announced on August 12, 2026, that its creators are automatically opted in to having their channel content used to train generative AI models for its parent company, Amazon.
▪Twitch Chief Product Officer Mike Minton stated that the platform made the AI training setting opt-out by default because if it were opt-in, nobody would opt in.