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EQUIPEngadget · 2h ago

How to stop Twitch from training AI on your streams

Executive Brief

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Twitch has implemented a new policy allowing the platform to utilize broadcast content for artificial intelligence training purposes. Corporate streamers must manually adjust account settings to prevent their proprietary data and live footage from being integrated into these models.

  • 01Twitch opted for an opt-out model rather than making AI data sharing an opt-in feature
  • 02Users must navigate to privacy settings to revoke permission for AI model training
  • 03The policy change raises significant data privacy and intellectual property concerns for commercial broadcasters
  • 04Automatic data scraping remains active by default for all existing and new creator accounts

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And why the company didn't make the feature opt-in.