Twitch And Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers' Content

A class action lawsuit filed this week accuses Amazon's Twitch gaming service of using video streams to train its AI products without licensing or permission, alleging breach of contract. The suit follows Twitch's addition of an opt-out setting for AI training, which is enabled by default, and a statement by chief product officer Mike Minton that "if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in.

A class action filed this week accused Amazon's Twitch gaming service of using video streams to fuel its AI products without licensing or obtaining permission, reports Engadget: Earlier this month, Twitch Support posted on X that it added an option to opt out of "having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon." Shortly after, Twitch hosted an episode of its recurring Patch Notes stream where Mike Minton, the company's chief product officer, said "if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in," when asked by a viewer why the Twitch settings for AI training aren't opt-in but instead enabled by default, requiring users to opt out if they don't want to participate. Now, the latest class action lawsuit claims that Twitch and Amazon committed a breach of contract when the companies decided to use its streamers as "free training stock for separate commercial AI products." Read more of this story https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/23/2127238/twitch-and-amazon-hit-with-lawsuit-for-training-ai-with-streamers-content?utm source=rss1.0moreanon&utm medium=feed at Slashdot.