sanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours ago‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’: Twitch is using streamers’ content to train generative AI by defaultwww.videogameschronicle.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1160
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minus-squareGrimy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoCurrently, if you can access it without an account, it’s never been opt anything. You can freely scrape anything that’s publicly available. I guess Twitch is just laying down the ground work expecting copyright laws to get stronger (not a good thing unless you are Twitch and YouTube).
minus-squareShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoI expect there’s some kind of TOS rule about scraping and recording of streams. Making it opt-out allows Twitch to sell those streams to AI companies similar to how Reddit did after going public.
minus-squareGrimy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoCurrently, the ToS doesn’t really matter, it just let’s them ban you which doesn’t really impact most competent scrapers.
Currently, if you can access it without an account, it’s never been opt anything. You can freely scrape anything that’s publicly available.
I guess Twitch is just laying down the ground work expecting copyright laws to get stronger (not a good thing unless you are Twitch and YouTube).
I expect there’s some kind of TOS rule about scraping and recording of streams. Making it opt-out allows Twitch to sell those streams to AI companies similar to how Reddit did after going public.
Currently, the ToS doesn’t really matter, it just let’s them ban you which doesn’t really impact most competent scrapers.