Twitch ha confirmado que el contenido generado por sus creadores de streaming ha sido utilizado para entrenar modelos de inteligencia artificial de Amazon. La plataforma, que pertenece al conglomerado de Jeff Bezos, implementó recientemente una opción para que los usuarios puedan excluirse de este uso de sus transmisiones, luego de que miles de creadores expresaran su preocupación.

Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out

The new setting aims to recognize creators’ right to decide how the content they produce is used. However, its launch has also raised questions about how Twitch and Amazon have used that content up to now.

Minton pointed out that these mechanisms are not unique to Twitch and considered it likely that other companies developing AI systems are also extracting content from Twitch and other services to use in training their models. “I don’t know for sure,” he said, “but I think it’s quite reasonable to assume that almost any publicly available content is used to train models in one way or another, with or without permission. So I think we also need to acknowledge that there’s a lot here that’s beyond even our direct control.”

These statements raised new questions: Since when has Twitch content been used to train AI models? Is Amazon the only company using this data, or are its business partners also involved? To what extent and in what ways is the authorship of content published by creators respected?

Para los creadores latinoamericanos, esta revelación plantea preocupaciones adicionales sobre el control de su contenido. En una región donde plataformas como Twitch son una fuente importante de ingresos para miles de streamers, la posibilidad de que sus transmisiones sean utilizadas para entrenar sistemas de IA sin compensación equitativa representa un nuevo desafío para la economía digital de América Latina.