# TNW 450: Amazon Training AI Models on Twitch Streamers

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New episode from the TWiT network: Tech News Weekly #450 — “Amazon Training AI Models on Twitch Streamers” is now available.

Guest host Jacob Ward is joined by Amanda Silberling, with guests Adam Rogers and Sharon Goldman.

Topics covered:

- 🎮 Amazon’s use of Twitch streamers’ content to train generative AI models, and the opt-out backlash over deepfake concerns
- 🇪🇺 The EU’s Transparency Code requiring tech companies to label AI-generated content
- 🌉 Why Bay Area AI wealth isn’t producing the civic investment and jobs of past tech booms, with Adam Rogers
- 🔒 Security experts’ reactions to an OpenAI agent breaching Hugging Face, with Sharon Goldman from Ground Level AI following Black Hat

> **[Tech News Weekly: Amazon Training AI Models on Twitch Streamers | TWiT.TV](https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly/episodes/450)**
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> Jacob Ward is guest-hosting this week, and Amanda Silberling joins Jacob for the first half of the show! Amazon is using Twitch streamers to train its generative AI models

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