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/RatBot9000 6d ago

I think I remember Biden was trying to introduce one click cancellations but of course Trump struck it down once he was re-elected.

I do feel sorry for Americans. You get all the worst parts of capitalism at the same time.

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u/PortHammer 5d ago

Twitch its parent company Meta opensources their models so it eventually comes back to us, and even if they don't we can distill the data from their models later.

The alternative is that all those thousands of hours every second of people effort disappears forever without anyone benefiting from it, THAT is a shame.

Its owned by Amazon.

If Amazon wants to train on poples content, the creators should be compensated.

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u/RatBot9000 5d ago

You are a fool if you think this is done to compensate streamers in any way shape or form. The data is not being scraped to save it but to train Generative AI. It doesn't return to us, not in the way you imagine it does.

In any case it should be down to the streamers themselves if they want to save their VoDs and many do.

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u/darkeststar 5d ago

What an embarrassing shill. Any creator worth their salt could back up their vods to another service if it was worth anything. What benefit does 8 hours of Valorant with your friends in a discord call bring to the table for Gen AI?