Morning Edition · Tuesday, September 1, 2026Published at 2:29 AM EDT · New York

Twitch Lets Streamers Refuse AI Training, After Enrolling Everyone by Default

The company's chief product officer said the setting is opt-out because, in his words, nobody would opt in.

Twitch has added a setting called Training for Generative AI that lets creators stop Amazon, its parent company, from using their material to train generative models. Russian-language coverage of the change described it accurately. The togg…