Warren Pandiscia, a Connecticut Twitch streamer with over 900 followers, filed a class-action lawsuit on August 20 in the Northern District of California against Amazon and Twitch, alleging the compan…
A class action lawsuit filed on August 20, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California accuses Twitch and Amazon of using creators' streams to train generative AI without …
A new survey by The Turing Institute finds that British Gen Z (ages 18-24) trusts AI less than Boomers, with 74% supporting mandatory watermarking on AI-generated media and 61% backing licensing for f…
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) has ordered Twitch to provide users with an opt-out for Amazon's use of their content for AI training, citing GDPR violations. The opt-out toggle, located in …
Amazon quietly enabled generative AI training on all Twitch streams, VODs, clips, chat logs, and guest audio by default on August 12, with no advance notice, and Twitch CPO Mike Minton admitted on rec…
Most social media platforms train AI models on user content, and few offer easy opt-outs, according to a Lifehacker report. Twitch recently allowed users to opt out, but Facebook, for example, does no…
Twitch, owned by Amazon, has added an account setting allowing streamers to opt out of having their content used to train Amazon's AI models, according to WIRED. The opt-out appears in the Security an…
Twitch introduced a setting on August 12, 2026, that allows streamers to opt out of having their channel content used to train Amazon's generative AI models, but the toggle was enabled by default for …
Twitch, owned by Amazon, admitted on August 12, 2026, that it had automatically opted all users into training Amazon's generative AI models on their content, with an opt-out toggle added only after cr…
Twitch has enabled by default an opt-out setting that allows Amazon to use streamers' live broadcasts, chat, VODs, Clips, Highlights, and channel text or images to train generative-AI models, with cre…
Twitch, a subsidiary of Amazon, has introduced a new account setting allowing streamers to opt out of having their content used to train Amazon's AI models, but the platform has not disclosed when it …
Cursor, the AI code editor, announced that Firetiger, a startup founded in 2024 by Rustam Lalkaka and Achille Roussel, is joining Cursor. Firetiger builds agents that monitor production software, catc…
Twitch, the Amazon-owned live-streaming platform, announced that user streams may now be used to train Amazon's AI models, with an opt-out option available for users who do not want their content used…
Twitch, the Amazon-owned live streaming platform, acknowledged that 'nobody would opt-in' to having their streams used to train Amazon AI models, after streamers discovered their content was being use…
Twitch confirmed that parent company Amazon uses the platform's content for AI training, with all users enrolled by default; users must opt out to prevent their content from being used. Twitch's chief…
Twitch, owned by Amazon, faces backlash after users discovered that streams, chats, and other channel content are used by default to train Amazon's generative AI models unless creators manually opt ou…
A 61-page AI-generated manifesto has been linked to a crime plot, raising concerns about the role of large language models in amplifying extremist ideologies. The incident highlights gaps in current A…
Twitch has begun letting Amazon train generative AI models on streamer content by default, with an opt-out setting added under Security and Privacy. Chief product officer Mike Minton said the setting …
Twitch, an Amazon-owned streaming platform, is using creators' channel content to train Amazon's generative AI models by default, with a 'Training for Generative AI' setting toggled on in account secu…
Twitch streamers criticized the platform after it was revealed that streams, clips, and videos would be used to train Amazon's generative AI models by default. Twitch added an opt-out setting on Augus…