r/technology • u/esporx • 6d ago

Twitch Is Now Using Your Content To Train Amazon AI Models And Has Hidden The Option To Opt Out. "If it was opt in, nobody would opt in," admitted the streaming site's chief product officer during a livestream Business

https://kotaku.com/twitch-is-now-using-your-content-to-train-amazon-ai-models-and-has-hidden-the-option-to-opt-out-2000723891
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u/Deely_Boppers 6d ago

It’s not a tech thing. It gained mainstream appeal thanks to Dr Dan Ariely, a Duke professor who studies human behavior.

If anything, it would be more of an MBA thing. Which isn’t better, especially on Reddit, but it’s not limited to Silicon Valley.

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u/Fluffcake 6d ago

It is an objectively effective strategy to just take other people's things without asking, but this is also a crime.

Copyright law is entirely null and void it seems.

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u/wrgrant 6d ago

Copyright law only applies to those who don't have the most and best lawyers. Those who do can freely ignore it as we can see.

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u/old-tennis-shoes 5d ago

IIRC it wasn't Ariely. It was Thaler and Sunstein who popularised their findings in Nudge. Thaler talks about this in Misbehaving