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Twitch will train Amazon's AI on your streams unless you opt out

Wednesday, August 12, 2026Andrew Orr <andreworr@appleinsider.com>View original
Twitch now lets streamers block Amazon from using their broadcasts, clips, and other channel content to train generative AI. However, it's opt out, so here's how to do that.

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The Amazon-owned streaming service announced the AI training opt-out on August 12. Users can find it under Security and Privacy in Twitch account settings, where it's labeled "Training for Generative AI."

Turning off the setting prevents Amazon from using a channel's streams, videos on demand, clips, highlights, chat, text, and images to train future models. Twitch says the opt-out covers Amazon models that generate or synthesize text, audio, images, or video.

We've added a setting that lets you opt out of having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon.

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