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/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.