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<\/p>\nThe class action suit claims that Amazon never obtained consent from Twitch streamers to be used to train its AI models.<\/p>\n
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A streamer has taken a stand against Twitch and Amazon using his content to train AI models. Warren Pandiscia, a streamer based in Connecticut, filed a class action lawsuit<\/a> earlier this week, as first reported by\u00a0Courthouse News<\/a>. The complaint accused Twitch and Amazon of not obtaining licensing or permission before using his Twitch streams and videos as a “dataset necessary to fuel Amazon’s AI products.”<\/p>\n Earlier this month, Twitch Support<\/a> posted on X that it added an option to opt out of “having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon.” Shortly after, Twitch hosted an episode of its recurring Patch Notes<\/a> stream where Mike Minton, the company’s chief product officer, said “if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in,” when asked by a viewer why the Twitch settings for AI training aren’t opt-in but instead enabled by default, requiring users to opt out if they don’t want to participate.<\/p>\n Now, the latest class action lawsuit claims that Twitch and Amazon committed a breach of contract when the companies decided to use its streamers as “free training stock for separate commercial AI products.” The complaint also accused the two companies of benefitting from their streamers, who “lost money or property as a result of defendants’ unlawful, unfair and fraudulent practices.”\u00a0<\/p>\n