Twitch Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over AI Training Using Unpaid Creator Content

ME News reports that on August 24 (UTC+8), popular gaming livestreaming platform Twitch is facing a class-action lawsuit for using streamers’ live broadcasts, clips, chat logs, and photos to train its parent company Amazon’s generative AI models without consent or compensation. The plaintiff in this class-action suit, Warren Pandiscia, a streamer with approximately a thousand followers, filed a 37-page complaint last week in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that the platform violated creators’ implied agreements and state unfair competition laws. This lawsuit also publicly confirms for the first time that Amazon is indeed using Twitch content to train its own AI models. The tech giant acquired Twitch for nearly $1 billion in 2014 and has significantly increased its AI investments in recent years in an effort to catch up with competitors like Google and Meta. It remains unclear when Amazon began collecting this data or how much content has been used for model training. (Engadget) Twitch has been integrated into prediction market platforms such as Polymarket, primarily for live streaming esports events. Currently, over 500 prediction markets on Polymarket rely on Twitch livestreams. (Source: ODAILY)