Twitch adds opt-out for Amazon AI training, but your data is on by default

Key points

• Twitch introduced a "Training for Generative AI" toggle in its Security and Privacy settings on or before 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 does not 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 its users pull their content out of Amazon's AI training pipeline. A toggle called "Training for Generative AI" appeared in account settings this week, giving streamers and viewers a way to stop their videos, clips, chats and channel images from feeding the generative AI models, the technology behind tools that can create text, pictures, audio or video from scratch, that Amazon builds.

The setting lives under the Security and Privacy tab inside Twitch's main settings page. According to a Twitch support page, switching it off means your content will not be used in "future training" of any Amazon AI model whose purpose is to generate or synthesise text, audio, images or video.

Does turning it off break anything on Twitch?

No. Twitch says AI-supported features will keep working even after you opt out. AutoMod, the automated chat-moderation tool that flags rule-breaking messages, stays active. So do captions and real-time sponsorship assistance. The opt-out only covers the generative AI training pipeline, not the everyday tools that run your stream.

There is one important limit. If you type in someone else's chat, your messages fall under that channel owner's setting, not yours. 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 appears to be switched on by default, as first reported by The Verge, meaning Amazon can use your content unless you act. Twitch has not confirmed publicly that "on" is the factory setting, but multiple users found it in that position when they first looked.

To opt out, log in to Twitch, open Settings, go to Security and Privacy, and find "Training for Generative AI". Switch it off. The change applies to future training runs; Twitch does not say whether data already collected will be removed.

The opt-out covers your channel. It does not reach back in time to scrub past content already used in training.

Common questions

Will opting out delete my data from AI models Amazon has already trained?

No. Twitch says 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 has not published a narrower definition.