Posted Aug 13, 2026 at 9:09 AM UTCJ‘If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in.’According to Twitch chief product officer Mike Minton, that’s the “honest answer” as to why the streaming platform has started training Amazon’s generative AI models on users’ content by default. Twitch users can choose to opt out, but Minton defends the default setting because “almost every content service in the world” is also doing it.Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Jess Weatherbed
‘If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in.’
According to Twitch chief product officer Mike Minton, that’s the “honest answer” as to why the streaming platform has started training Amazon’s generative AI models on users’ content by default. Twitch users can choose to opt out, but Minton defends the default setting because “almost every content service in the world” is also doing it. [Media: https://bsky.app/profile/witchytq.bsky.social/post/3msvuadgtts2r]
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