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Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content - Engadget

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Connecticut streamer Warren Pandiscia filed a class action lawsuit against Twitch and Amazon, first reported by Courthouse News, claiming breach of contract for using streamers' content to train AI without consent. The suit alleges streamers were used as unpaid training data for Amazon's commercial AI products. Twitch recently added an opt-out setting; chief product officer Mike Minton said "if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in."

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