A Connecticut streamer, Warren Pandiscia, filed a class action lawsuit against Twitch and Amazon, alleging the companies used his streams and videos as a dataset to train AI models without consent. The complaint accuses Twitch and Amazon of breaching contract and unjustly profiting from streamers, causing financial loss. Twitch recently added an opt‑out option for AI training, though its chief product officer, Mike Minton, previously noted that an opt‑in approach would likely see low participation.

The lawsuit highlights broader concerns about content creators' rights, echoing earlier legal actions against Apple by three YouTubers who claim the tech giant scraped copyrighted material for AI training.