Twitch Streamers Can Now Opt Out of AI Training

Amazon has added a setting that lets Twitch streamers refuse to hand over their content for AI training. A new toggle, found under the Security and Privacy tab in account settings, controls whether a streamer's broadcasts feed into generative AI models built at Amazon, which owns Twitch. The setting covers a lot of ground: streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and even the pictures and text posted on a channel page. According to a Twitch support page, opting out means none of that material gets used in "future training" of Amazon AI systems designed to generate text, audio, images, or video.

The change lands as streaming platforms face growing pressure over how they use creator content to build AI products, often without much say from the people generating that content in the first place. Twitch's version gives users a direct switch, though it comes with caveats about chat participation on other people's channels and about which AI features keep running regardless of a streamer's choice. The toggle itself raises a basic question worth checking: what's the default setting when someone has never touched it before?