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🎮 Multi-platformTwitch Is Now Using Channels To Train Generative AI, And The Company Knows It’s Unpopular
The Amazon-owned streaming site Twitch is now using channels to train generative AI systems, and the company's top product boss knows it's a controversial piece of news that most people won't like. By default, Twitch channels are now used to train generative AI models across Amazon, and users need to opt-out. Opting-out isn't enough, though, as any chats on a channel that hasn't opted out will still be used for training(https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/twitch-account-settings?language=enUSFAQ). During a livestream(https://www.twitch.tv/twitch), Twitch chief product officer Mike Minton said that if the model training was on an opt-in basis, no one would do it. "We know many of you will opt out. Why is it not opt-in? 'Let me opt-in versus making me opt-out.' Well, there is an honest answer, and I think most of you can appreciate this. If it was opt-in, nobody would opt-in. That's honestly the answer. So it's going to be on by default," he said. "Almost every content service in the world is on by default. I think the thing that we are doing here that is unique and different is respecting your wishes to opt-out of model training. I know this is not a fan-favorite. I know it's very upsetting to the community. But this is where we are." On the Twitch website(https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/twitch-account-settings?language=enUSFAQ), the company said the new model-training feature uses channel content to train generative AI content models, including streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text broadcast to the channel. Opting-out stops Twitch from doing this on your channel, but as mentioned above, chatting on someone else's stream will still leverage the model-training if that person has not opted out. Additionally, anyone who opts-out to this new feature will still be part of model-training, as Twitch uses AI and machine learning for its AutoMod community-safety service and for AI-supported features like automatically generated captions. It is not possible to opt-out of these offerings, though Twitch said it does not retain user data for other types of model training. You can't opt-out of all of Twitch's AI uses because some AI-supported features are not individual settings, but platform offerings, Twitch said. "Some of it runs the service itself, the same way our servers and our code do. Some of it keeps the service secure. And some of it, like AutoMod, protects the whole community. Turning those off for one person would weaken safety and security for everyone else on the platform, so they are not individual settings," Twitch explained. Twitch's own head of community, GameSpot alum Mary Kish, said she is opting-out of the new AI-training features(https://x.com/AndreSegers/status/2087663220303482886) in part because some of her community members would not join her streams if she opted-in. Twitch's announcement drew a lot of responses. Popular streamer PaladinAmber joked(https://x.com/PaladinAmber/status/2087771588666249546) that she is going to "start doing makeup that distorts my face and speak in really cryptic terms" and "fk with the stream"(https://x.com/PaladinAmber/status/2087772053550371020) so much that whatever the AI learns will be so bad it needs to be thrown out. People are raising other issues, like what happens(https://bsky.app/profile/futterish.fsquared.biz/post/3msvwbgvrl22o) if a creator streams your game and has opted-in. Or what happens for union-backed voice actors(https://bsky.app/profile/unburntwitch.com/post/3msvxadj3nk2h) who lobbied for protections against AI usage. The push for further AI training on Twitch is not a big surprise, as its parent company, Amazon, is heavily invested in various pillars of AI. In May this year, the company said it was investing more than $200 billion into its AI buildout(https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/09/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-ai-spending.html) in 2026 alone. Amazon is also partnered with AI juggernaut Anthropic(https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-compute).
🎮 Multi-platformMcDonald's Happy Meals Get Hello Kitty x Godzilla Crossover Toys
Sanrio characters are dressing up as Monsterverse creatures in McDonald's upcoming Happy Meal toys.
🎮 Multi-platformDuskfade Review: Kingdom Hearts New Replacement Is the Best Mario Game of the Year
Developer Weird Beluga has knocked their debut game out of the park with this action-adventure platformer.
🎮 Multi-platformFire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Preview: Potentially Nintendo's Best Strategy Game Yet
After playing 10 hours of Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave, it's shaping up to be the best Fire Emblem game in years
🍄 Nintendo Switch, Multi-platformNintendo’s next Fire Emblem has a bold new structure
Nintendo's first Fire Emblem game for the Switch 2 is structured in an ambitious way. Unlike the well-loved Three Houses, a strategy game that tasked you with pledging allegiance to a specific faction and seeing their story all the way to the end, the new Fortune's Weave lets you swap between four heroes and their &8230;
🎮 Multi-platformHenry Cavill's 2-Hour Action-Movie Masterpiece With a Secret 007 Connection Is Officially Free to Stream
Nearly 20 years after almost becoming James Bond, Cavill found another surprising way into 007's history.
🎮 Multi-platformPokémon Go Is Giving All Players a Perfect Mewtwo to Apologize for Times Square Stunt
Now everyone can get the prize that influencers received at the Pokémon Go Times Square anniversary celebration.
🎮 Multi-platformGoogle Finally Agrees to Refund LOTR Fan After Trilogy Disappeared from Digital Library, but There's a Catch
Google proved frustratingly unhelpful when The Lord of the Rings trilogy disappeared from a user's library, seemingly out of nowhere.
🖥 PlayStation, PC, Multi-platformFinal Fantasy's Biggest Competition Officially Returns In 2026
Bandai Namco's Tales series comes back to consoles and PC in October, and this remaster's got PS1-era style to spare
🎮 Multi-platformElden Ring does this better than anyone else
How much storytelling can you do with a few yards of cloth? If you're FromSoftware, a whole freaking lot! In Elden Ring and FromSoftware's ever-growing catalog of solemn sword adventures, there's an astounding amount of attention paid to cloth. The shape, the texture, the movement. But why? Polygon's resident man of the cloth Patrick is here to break it all down.eldenring
🎮 Multi-platformWhy horses are so hard for video games to get right
If a horse is in a video game, that means someone busted their butt to get it there. Horses are WEIRD — they're massive animals with weird bendy joints and many, many gaits. It's no wonder why so many games choose to simply treat them as transportation. Even so, some games go the extra mile to make horses unique and meaningful to the gameplay — and they benefit from it massively. Here's why horses are so difficult to get into games, and what we're missing out on when horses aren't given their due.breathofthewild eldenring
🎮 Multi-platformI hate dogs (in Elden Ring)
Elden Ring's dogs are some of the most annoying enemies for me to wrap my head around in a fight. Even hundreds of hours into the game, one tiny mistake in a fight against a dog threatens to send me spiraling into despair and lost runes. I wanted to figure out what it was about FromSoft's dog-type enemies that made them so obnoxious to fight. So I put away my weapons and put up my fists to every dog in the Lands Between — including the Monstrous Dogs and the Red Wolf of Radagon — until I figured out why dogs are a pain in my butt.eldenring gameplay