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Twitch faces backlash over Amazon using content to train AI

BBC News · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · · 641 words · By Osmond Chia; Laura Cress
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Twitch users outraged as Amazon uses their content to train AI in opt-out feature - Published Twitch has been criticised by users after it emerged the popular streaming platform allowed their content to be used to train Amazon's AI models.

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What happened

Twitch users outraged as Amazon uses their content to train AI in opt-out feature - Published Twitch has been criticised by users after it emerged the popular streaming platform allowed their content to be used to train Amazon's AI models.

Why it matters

Amazon owns Twitch and a setting allowing the US tech giant to take data generated by creators and audiences to train AI is turned on by default.

Common ground

Users can opt out of that, Twitch said on Wednesday, external, but the announcement sparked a backlash with some users questioning why it was allowed in the first place.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Mary Kish, head of community at Twitch, took viewers through a tutorial on how to disable generative AI training through a user's channel settings”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a tutorial provided by Mary Kish.
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Claim 2: “Amazon, which bought Twitch for nearly $1bn (£740m) in 2014”
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Claim 3: “Doing so will prevent Amazon from using streams, clips, images, chats and other channel content to train its generative AI models”
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Claim 4: “Those that do want to disable it would need to navigate to the Settings tab in their Streamer Dashboard, click the Security and Privacy tab, then scroll down to near the bottom of the options and toggle off "training for Generative AI"”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 5: “Amazon owns Twitch”
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Wikipedia explicitly states that Twitch is operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon.
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web search NEUTRAL — Twitch is an American video live-streaming service popular in video games, including broadcasts of esports competitions. It also offers music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_(service)
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web search NEUTRAL — Amazon's market cap sits near $2.7 trillion as of July 2026. Twitch is not broken out separately, but it still leads live streaming with roughly 53% of global hours watched, even after four straight q…
https://www.revenuememo.com/p/who-owns-twitch
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web search NEUTRAL — Find Twitch customer service phone number, executive email contacts, response times, and free complaint resolution help. Updated March 5, 2025.
https://www.elliott.org/company-contacts/twitch-customer-ser…
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Claim 6: “Users can opt out of that, Twitch said on Wednesday”
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Multiple sources confirm that an opt-out setting exists within the account security settings for users to stop their content from being used for AI training.
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web search NEUTRAL — It appears Twitch has quietly started using content created by streamers, like VODs and livestreams, to help train Amazon AI models. And the only way to opt out of your content being used this way is …
https://kotaku.com/twitch-is-now-using-your-content-to-train…
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web search NEUTRAL — The page also points out that opting out does not shut off every use of AI on Twitch. The platform can still use AI-powered features like AutoMod and caption generation, though Twitch says content use…
https://gizmodo.com/twitch-adds-setting-letting-users-opt-ou…
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web search NEUTRAL — Twitch Adds Setting Letting Users Opt Out of AI Training Amid User Backlash AI companies have already scraped much of the public internet to train their models.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/techgrid-media_amazon-turns-t…
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Claim 7: “Chabots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini are both examples of the tech [generative AI]”
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Wikipedia entries for both ChatGPT and Google Gemini explicitly define them as generative AI chatbots.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ChatGPT is a generative AI chatbot developed by OpenAI. Originally released on November 30, 2022, the product uses large language models—specifically generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs)—to gene…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google AI is a subsidiary of Google DeepMind dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI). It was announced at Google I/O 2017 by CEO Sundar Pichai. This division has been expanded to its reach with rese…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_AI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gemini, also known as Google Gemini (formerly known as Bard), is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot and virtual assistant developed by Google. It is powered by the family of large language m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Gemini
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Claim 8: “Twitch's chief product officer Mike Minton, said it was "respecting" users by letting them opt out”
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Multiple reports cite Twitch Chief Product Officer Mike Minton stating that the opt-out is a way of respecting users, while simultaneously admitting that an opt-in model would result in nobody opting in.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Daniel Joseph Clancy (born January 11, 1964) is an American technologist and computer scientist. After working at NASA, he was the engineering director for Google Book Search from 2005 to 2010 and the…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kyle Vogt (born 1984 or 1985) is an American technology entrepreneur known for his contributions to autonomous vehicle technology and live-streaming platform technologies. Vogt is a co-founder of Crui…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Vogt
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Twitch is an American video live-streaming service popular in video games, including broadcasts of esports competitions. It also offers music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_(service)
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Claim 9: “a setting allowing the US tech giant to take data generated by creators and audiences to train AI is turned on by default”
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Multiple independent sources (Malwarebytes, TikTok report, LinkedIn report) confirm that Twitch implemented a default-on setting allowing Amazon to use creator content to train generative AI models.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Twitch is an American video live-streaming service popular in video games, including broadcasts of esports competitions. It also offers music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_(service)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models (LLMs) developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software d…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Emmett Shear (born 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded the live video platform Justin.tv. Shear became the chief executive officer of Twitch when it was spun off fro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Shear
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Claim 10: “Twitch said a person's audio might be used to "refine models that create speech to text"”
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Multiple sources report that Twitch stated user audio could be used to refine speech-to-text models.
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web search NEUTRAL — With the setting enabled, Twitch says channel content – including livestreams, videos on demand, clips, highlights, text, images, and chat messages – may be used to train Amazon's generative AI models…
https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/08/13/twitch-feeds-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Twitch uses creator content to train Amazon's generative AI models. The setting arrived on August 12 already switched on for every account, with no announcement. It covers streams, chat, VODs, clips a…
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Twitch-your-streams-train-Amaz…
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web search NEUTRAL — Amazon will not resell the data to other companies, he added. Minton gave a concrete example of how the data might be used: a creator's audio could help refine speech-to-text models, which would in tu…
https://qz.com/twitch-amazon-ai-training-streamers-opt-out-0…
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Claim 11: “the data collected will not be re-sold to other companies”
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Multiple sources report that Mike Minton explicitly stated that the data collected for AI training would not be resold to other companies.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Twitch is an American video live-streaming service popular in video games, including broadcasts of esports competitions. It also offers music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_(service)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models (LLMs) developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software d…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Emmett Shear (born 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded the live video platform Justin.tv. Shear became the chief executive officer of Twitch when it was spun off fro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Shear
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Claim 12: “In Twitch's own FAQs about its use of AI... it says if users do not opt out, their content could be used to train generative AI models”
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Multiple sources confirm that Twitch's policy/announcements state that content from users who do not opt out may be used to train generative AI models.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 15.ai was a free non-commercial web application and research project that used artificial intelligence to generate text-to-speech voices of fictional characters from popular media. Created by a pseudo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15.ai
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amazon.com, Inc. (doing business as Amazon) is an American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, entertainment, and artificial…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "BLIT" is a 1988 science fiction short story by the British writer David Langford, first published in the September–October 1988 issue of Interzone. It was republished in Interzone: The 4th Anthology …
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Claim 13: “this would help improve automatic subtitles on Twitch streams as well as Amazon videos”
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While the 'Evidence for claim 8' section was empty, the evidence provided for claim 7 explicitly mentions that refining speech-to-text models 'would in turn improve automatic subtitles on Twitch and Amazon videos'.
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