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Twitch and Amazon are facing a class-action lawsuit after the streaming platform rolled out a feature that automatically trains its generative AI on streamers\u2019 content unless they manually opt out.<\/p>\n
The setting sparked a wave of backlash when it was rolled out last week. “Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon,” it reads.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s buried in users\u2019 security and privacy settings, and is automatically turned on by default.<\/u> Streamers must toggle the option off in order to opt out of it \u2014 but that doesn\u2019t stop Twitch from using their channel content for other purposes, as outlined in the platform\u2019s Privacy Notice<\/u>.<\/p>\n We’ve added a setting that lets you opt out of having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon. <\/p>\n Click here to learn more:https:\/\/t.co\/C3G0Jt6m0D<\/p>\n \u2014 Twitch Support (@TwitchSupport) August 12, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Just a week later, Amazon and Twitch were officially named in a class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on August 20, 2026. In the 37-page complaint, plaintiff Warren Pandiscia \u2014 a Twitch streamer based in Connecticut with over 900 followers \u2014 argues that Amazon \u201cunlawfully\u201d scraped creators\u2019 content without their consent by automatically opting them into the AI training setting.<\/p>\n \u201cDefendants\u2019 actions were not only unlawful, but an unconscionable attack on the community of content creators whose content is used to fuel the multitrillion-dollar generative AI industry without any compensation,” the suit reads.<\/p>\n “Content creators such as Plaintiff and the Class Members will never be able to claw back the intellectual property unlawfully copied and used by Defendants to train Amazon\u2019s generative AI. Once AI ingests content, that content is stored in its neural network, and not capable of deletion or retraction. Defendants\u2019 actions constitute abuse and exploitation of content creators\u2019 work for Defendants\u2019 profit.”<\/p>\n\n