“If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in,” Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. “That’s honestly the answer.”
Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon’s generative AI models. Opting out means that “your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel” won’t be used in “future training” of an Amazon AI model “whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, […]
Twitch is giving parents more control over how their children are using the streaming platform, including the ability to block them from broadcasting entirely. Parental controls are now available that allow guardians to link Twitch accounts with their 13- to 17-year-old children, providing account management features and a weekly email summarizing their teen’s activity, including […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch series today at 4 p.m. ET.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a streaming series on Twitch, in which he’ll respond to questions the public have submitted via the chat, Polygon reports. The series is aptly titled “Talk with the People,” and kicks off later today at 4PM ET. “With the launch of ‘Talk with the People’ we’re bringing […]
The company is implementing two suspension types: streaming suspensions and chatting suspensions.