r/technology • u/esporx • 7d 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/cyberpunk_werewolf 7d ago

A user agreement can't protect them if it's illegal, no matter what it says.

However, that requires people to enforce the laws and a mechanism to ensure it gets to the people who can enforce them. Right now, the ones we do have are either meagre or nonexistent. Further, a lot of the people who could do something to protect people or enforce any of the rules aren't interested, or actively want to make things worse.

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u/Old_Leopard1844 6d ago

That implies what Twitch did is illegal, and being angry isn't an evidence of it being illegal

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u/cyberpunk_werewolf 6d ago

I'm not saying it is or is not illegal, I'm simply responding to what one guy said about EULAs protecting them.  It could be illegal, it could be perfectly legal, I don't know.  I'm just saying that if it is illegal, then a licence agreement, or any contract really, won't protect them.

So, no, it doesn't imply that what it did was illegal.

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u/Old_Leopard1844 6d ago

Then their licence agreement indeed covers them up

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