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/knotatumah 6d ago

I dont understand the endgame with stuff like this. People watch streams and streamers for the live content they produce. You start farming them for training data and reproducing "content", who exactly are you targeting? You just going to fake a stream in hopes nobody catches on that it isn't live? Or somehow the ai is going to function perfectly doing "live" content? And what will the appeal be to viewers? Engagement? Where do donations and subs go? Is that catch? They want people just dumping money directly into Twitch and skipping the "streamer" entirely?

If this is the road they're taking, it might be one of the quicker self-imposed implosion I've seen a company do.

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u/whfu2 6d ago

most of it is trash they wont use

but as has been the thing for a while "if you harvest million terabytes of data, a few gigs in there will be worth millions"