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Twitch is using your content for Amazon AI training by default. Check this setting. This one is pretty easy to miss. Twitch recently added a “Training for Generative AI” setting that lets Amazon use your channel content to train generative AI models. The setting is ON by default. That can include your: • Streams • VODs • Clips • Stream chats • Channel text and images The weird part is that Twitch didn't exactly make this a huge announcement. The setting is buried in your privacy settings, so unless you know it's there, you probably won't go looking for it. And Twitch's own wording says: “Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon.” You can turn it off here: Twitch → Settings → Security and Privacy → Training for Generative AI → OFF One important thing though: turning this off only applies to your own channel content. If you chat in someone else's stream, their settings can determine whether that chat is eligible for AI training. Also, this isn't Twitch suddenly starting AI training for the first time. Amazon had already been using Twitch content for AI development. What's new here is the explicit opt-out setting and the default-on approach. And apparently Twitch's reasoning for making it opt-out was basically that if it were opt-in, hardly anyone would agree to it. Go check your setting. Was yours already ON? https://redd.it/1w96c93 @r_privacy