Twitch And Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers' Content (engadget.com) 3
A class action filed this week accused Amazon's Twitch gaming service of using video streams to fuel its AI products without licensing or obtaining permission, reports Engadget:
Earlier this month, Twitch Support posted on X that it added an option to opt out of "having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon." Shortly after, Twitch hosted an episode of its recurring Patch Notes stream where Mike Minton, the company's chief product officer, said "if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in," when asked by a viewer why the Twitch settings for AI training aren't opt-in but instead enabled by default, requiring users to opt out if they don't want to participate.
Now, the latest class action lawsuit claims that Twitch and Amazon committed a breach of contract when the companies decided to use its streamers as "free training stock for separate commercial AI products."
Did the read the TOS? (Score:2)
Something tells me that if you post something to those video channels, they already get a ton of rights to the content itself. Maybe these content creators thought it was just free hosting? Seems naive.
Re: Did the read the TOS? (Score:2)
Opt-out alternative instead of opt-in is illegal in some places.
UBI (Score:2)
UBI is like reparations from the robots and AI.
Did they read the rules? (Score:2)