Amazon’s Twitch is using livestreams to train its generative AI, and nobody’s happy with it
Amazon indicated for the first time this week that any video broadcast via its livestreaming platform Twitch could be used to train generative AI, unless users take steps to avoid it, which has caused a significant backlash from both audiences and content creators.
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