Twitch adds opt-out for Amazon AI training, but your data is on by default
A new privacy toggle lets streamers and viewers remove their videos, clips, and chats from Amazon's generative AI training pool. The catch: it starts switched on.
Key points
- Twitch introduced a "Training for Generative AI" toggle in its Security and Privacy settings on 12 August 2026.
- The toggle is switched on by default, meaning your content trains Amazon AI models unless you manually turn it off.
- Content covered by an opt-out includes streams, VODs, clips, chats, pictures and text posted on your channel.
- Opting out doesn't disable AI-powered safety tools like AutoMod, the system Twitch uses to automatically filter harmful messages in chat.
- If you chat on someone else's stream, that channel owner's setting controls whether your messages can be used, not yours.
Twitch now lets users pull their content out of Amazon's AI training pipeline. A toggle called "Training for Generative AI" appeared in account settings on 12 August 2026, giving streamers and viewers a way to stop their videos, clips, chats and channel images from feeding Amazon's generative AI models, the technology behind tools that can create text, pictures, audio or video from a prompt.
The setting lives under the Security and Privacy tab in Twitch's main settings page. Switching it off means your content won't be used in "future training" of any Amazon AI model whose purpose is to generate or synthesise text, audio, images or video, according to a Twitch support page.
Does turning it off break anything on Twitch?
No. AI-supported features keep working after you opt out. AutoMod, the automated chat-moderation tool that flags rule-breaking messages, stays active, as do captions and real-time sponsorship assistance. The opt-out covers only the generative AI training pipeline, not the everyday tools that run your stream.
There's one important limit. If you type in someone else's chat, your messages fall under that channel owner's setting. A streamer who has left the toggle on can still have your chat messages used for training, even if your own channel is opted out.
What should Twitch users actually do?
Check your settings now. The toggle was switched on when The Verge first reported it on 12 August, meaning Amazon can use your content unless you act. Twitch hasn't confirmed publicly that "on" is the factory setting, but that's where multiple users found it.
To opt out: log in to Twitch, open Settings, find Security and Privacy, then switch "Training for Generative AI" off. It's a thirty-second task worth doing. The change applies to future training runs only. Twitch doesn't say whether data already collected will be removed, and our coverage of Amazon's recent data-handling choices from 11 August suggests the company tends not to volunteer that detail.
Common questions
Will opting out delete my data from AI models Amazon has already trained?
No. The opt-out applies to "future training" only. Content used in training before you flip the switch stays in those models.
Does this affect all Amazon AI products or only Twitch ones?
The wording covers Amazon AI models broadly, not just Twitch features, so it appears to apply to any Amazon generative AI system trained on Twitch content. Amazon hasn't published a narrower definition.
