Twitch helps Amazon to train AI models
Amazon is leaning on Twitch content to train its AI models.
Twitch is allowing Amazon to use its content to train the company's AI models.
Twitch, which is owned by Amazon, is allowing the tech giant to take data generated by creators and audiences.
The livestreaming platform actually addresses the issue of AI usage on its own website.
The FAQ section reads: "What are "generative AI content models," and what does it mean for my content to be used to train them?
"Generative AI content models are AI tools that can help create or synthesize content outputs like text or images when given instructions or prompts because they are also trained on content. When you allow training, that means that your content may be used for future Gen AI model improvements.
"An example of what happens when you allow your content to be used for training a GenAI content model is that your audio might help refine models that create speech to text, which would help improve captions at Twitch but would also help improve captions across Amazon."
The FAQ section also clarifies what "opting out" means, and what it covers.
The Twitch website explains: "If you opt-out and decide to not allow your channel content to train Generative AI content models, your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel will not be used in future training of a model developed by Amazon whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, audio, images, or video.
"Opting-out of training generative AI content models does not opt you out of all AI or machine learning uses at Twitch. For example, Twitch will still run AutoMod, which helps keep our community safe, but does not retain your data and use it to produce content.
"Twitch may also still use your data to run AI-supported features, like captions, which automatically generate captions for your Clips but does not retain your stream or your clips to train a model that can generate new content."
