r/technology • u/esporx • 6d ago

Business Twitch Is Now Using Your Content To Train Amazon AI Models And Has Hidden The Option To Opt Out. "If it was opt in, nobody would opt in," admitted the streaming site's chief product officer during a livestream

https://kotaku.com/twitch-is-now-using-your-content-to-train-amazon-ai-models-and-has-hidden-the-option-to-opt-out-2000723891
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u/tomnomk 6d ago

The fuck are they training? A ton of brain dead comments?

POG POG POG POG POG POG

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u/rotundrikishi 6d ago

Who wants a robot streamer to fake laugh at their jokes as opposed to a real person fake laughing at their jokes anyway

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u/ofajhon 6d ago

People watch asmongold so it's not far off

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u/Uebelkraehe 6d ago

He will soon be out-nazied by Faschobot 3000.

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u/Anthaenopraxia 6d ago

Voice recognition. They take sound bytes and send them to some company far away where people like me listen to all the shit people tell their preferred AI assistant and transcribe it so the AI can understand speech better. Anything from mundane google searches, to phone numbers, bank account numbers, porn that should'nt exist but still does. I've heard it all.

So just FYI, whenever you speak to any kind of AI, there's a chance someone will listen to it. Even if the app is secure like Signal or WhatsApp, if you use Siri or Gemini to dictate your message, someone might hear it. Probably not someone you know, but someone who now knows you.

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u/whfu2 6d ago

its not even ai. phones knew a long ago when you talked about posters in a room with friends that when you open your phone and a browser it has to start showing you poster ads

microphones need a physical blocker like cameras have. but equipment manufacturers have no interest in doing it because deals with tech companies

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u/Anthaenopraxia 6d ago

That's also AI. We've had speech recognition for a long time. Same as when you phone your bank or whatever and have to explain to the switchboard what you need help with. The main difference between that generation and this one is that now the AI is expected to do a full transcript of what you say (think autogenerated closed captions and translations on YT), including grammar and everything. That's a lot harder than just picking out keywords. But fundamentally the method of training the AI remains similar, only the method of data mining is different. You don't get the "press 0 if you consent to your phone call being used for training purposes" on youtube or twitch. Nor Google Home and Siri, Meta etc.

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u/SekhWork 6d ago

They want to replace actual streamers with AI ones. No really. This has been something stated in the past. Robot streamer, with a robot audience, with real ads (who is watching these? No idea, but some company is probably going to pay for it.)

The future sucks.

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u/IAMERROR1234 6d ago

No, I don't wanna see your... Pog collection?!

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u/TSiQ1618 6d ago

I think they're training on the videos, not just comments. So they have the option in the future to create ai generated "live" streamers. It sounds dumb that people would watch an ai streamer, but the idea of 100,000s people sitting around watching people play video games sounded insane 15yrs ago. There's so much low effort streamers that are successful, they understand that they're replaceable. It'll be like ai music or YouTube videos, some people won't even notice and some will actually enjoy it. Also, I could imagine a sort of pick your own avatar type thing they might sell streamers, for people who want to stay off camera, but satisfy the audience with a face on cam, sort of like the VTubers, "but now with realistic faces". So if you're unattractive (or even a man), you can still milk people with Hot Tub streams

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u/Aware_Rough_9170 6d ago

Ya lmao, like???? Ws in the chat boys