In the ongoing negotiation between human creativity and machine appetite, Twitch has quietly shifted the terms of its relationship with millions of users — offering their streams, chats, and images to Amazon's AI systems as a matter of default rather than choice. The platform's own chief product officer admitted, with unusual frankness, that true consent would produce near-zero participation, revealing how deeply the modern data economy depends not on agreement but on inertia. This moment joins a widening pattern, from Meta to Amazon, in which the infrastructure of digital life is quietly repu