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Social Media Platforms Are Training Their AI Models on Your Content, but You Can Stop Them (Sometimes)

Summary by Lifehacker
Recently, the Amazon-owned Twitch made headlines for announcing that it would allow users to opt out of having their streams, VODs, and chats fed into an AI training machine. This, understandably, made a lot of people upset. But, it turns out, Twitch might be one of the more moderate social media sites on this front. Most social media apps are training some kind of AI on your data, and few make it as easy as a single toggle to opt out at all. Al…

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Lifehacker broke the news in New York, United States on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
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