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The Amazon-owned streaming site Twitch is now using channels to train generative AI systems, and the company’s top product boss knows it’s a controversial piece of news that most people won’t like.
By default, Twitch channels are now used to train generative AI models across Amazon, and users need to opt-out. Opting-out isn’t enough, though, as any chats on a channel that hasn’t opted out will still be used for training.
During a livestream, Twitch chief product officer Mike Minton said that if the model training was on an opt-in basis, no one would do it.
“We know many of you will opt out. Why is it not opt-in? ‘Let me opt-in versus making me opt-out.’ Well, there is an honest answer, and I think most of you can appreciate this. If it was opt-in, nobody would opt-in. That’s honestly the answer. So it’s going to be on by default,” he said. “Almost every content service in the world is on by default. I think the thing that we are doing here that is unique and different is respecting your wishes to opt-out of model training. I know this is not a fan-favorite. I know it’s very upsetting to
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