Twitch now lets users opt out of Amazon’s use of content from their channels to train Amazon’s “generative AI content models.” The change, announced today, comes more than two years after a company executive confirmed that Amazon was using Twitch content for AI training. In an updated support page, Twitch confirms that users must opt out if they don’t want their “streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel” used in future training of a model developed by Amazon whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, audio, images, or video.

To opt out, users must go to the proper settings at www.twitch.tv/settings/security. The support page adds: When you allow training, your content may be used for future Gen AI model improvements. For example, your audio might help refine models that create speech to text, improving captions across Twitch and Amazon.

Twitch users are automatically opted in to AI training and have been for at least a couple of years. At an event The Information held in 2024, Mike Minton, Twitch’s chief monetization officer at the time, was asked if Amazon uses Twitch to train AI models. He said, “Yeah, for sure,” adding that it’s within bounds of user trust and privacy regulations.