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The class action suit claims that Amazon never obtained consent from Twitch streamers to be used to train its AI models.
Per Down Detector, there are a bunch of folks having issues with Twitch on Thursday afternoon. And there's an update from the Twitch status page with a "major outage" on the web: "We have received reports of impacted services. This could manifest in chat not working, login difficulties, search impaired, etc. We're looking into the issue."
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Amazon’s Twitch Made Content Sharing the Default. Now Its Own Creators Are Suing the Platform
Millions of Twitch streamers have accused the Amazon-owned platform of using its streams and chats to train AI products.
Twitch and Amazon are facing a class-action lawsuit after the streaming platform rolled out a feature that automatically trains its generative AI on streamers' content unless they manually opt out.
An 18-year-old Twitch streamer was punched by his mother and threatened with being kicked out of his home after celebrating a huge raid from StableRonaldo.
By the site's own admission, using streamers to train generative AI was never going to be popular, but one Connecticut-based creator alleges the policy extends beyond the last month
A Twitch streamer found himself at the center of a viral controversy after a heated clash with his mother played The Twitch Streamer, 18, Attacked By Mom On Livestream: ‘No Value To The House’ first
Twitch said Wednesday users can opt out to prevent Amazon from training its AI models on their content.
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