Aug 23, 2026 · 2 hr 11 min · 31 segments
This week, Lotus, Niki, and John tackled a jam-packed week of surprising news, including Riot ending *2XKO's* development, Twitch's surprise auto-opt-in for GenAI training, and the ongoing and…
You know? You know? no but you know what lifestyle i love video games and you know we're gonna where we're gonna start actually not video games it's gonna be twitch.tv which we just talked about twitch.tv slash vgb as you go to now uh which by the way that channel will not be training ai because i opted out but if you haven't checked sure it won't i know Like it fucking matters.
But Twitch.tv has opted all users into generative AI training for Amazon because as admitted by Twitch chief product officer Mike Minton in a very funny video.
No one would ever opt in voluntarily as Mary Kish looked on in genuine quiet horror.
She did the thing of having to listen to very stupid people and then translate the words of a very stupid person into an audience that is indignant most of the time.
She did the thing where you've just heard a person make a mistake that you have to mess, that you have to clean
you get to hold that in the privacy of like a small room or a conference room or whatever.
is working is because we've had so many wonderful PR moments this year.
marathon stream.
There was the saber guy.
There's this.
You know? You know? no but you know what lifestyle i love video games and you know we're gonna where we're gonna start actually not video games it's gonna be twitch.tv which we just talked about twitch.tv slash vgb as you go to now uh which by the way that channel will not be training ai because i opted out but if you haven't checked sure it won't i know Like it fucking matters.
But Twitch.tv has opted all users into generative AI training for Amazon because as admitted by Twitch chief product officer Mike Minton in a very funny video.
No one would ever opt in voluntarily as Mary Kish looked on in genuine quiet horror.
She did the thing of having to listen to very stupid people and then translate the words of a very stupid person into an audience that is indignant most of the time.
She did the thing where you've just heard a person make a mistake that you have to mess, that you have to clean
you get to hold that in the privacy of like a small room or a conference room or whatever.
is working is because we've had so many wonderful PR moments this year.
marathon stream.
There was the saber guy.
There's this.
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