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No AI for global emotes, change CatintheChat

It is obvious from the disconnected whisker, uncanny expression, and strange anatomy that the holiday emote :CatintheChat: is AI generated. I speak on behalf of the artists on your platform who have had our livelihoods threatened by generative AI, as well as those with numerous ethical concerns- from datasets consisting of stolen and copyrighted work to environmental issues for immense amounts of energy spent on image generation.

From a marketing and business perspective, the money you save releasing AI emotes isn't worth the negative PR, especially compared to the positive PR and community building that would result from featuring one of the creatives on your platform instead.

Optics are important and this sends a clear message that you do not care about the artists working on your platform. The response on social media is very clear: rather than a fun feature to celebrate holidays, all the conversation is about how people don't want AI emotes anywhere near their channel or how they wish you would have worked with one of the many artists on your platform to create it.

This feels like a complete slap in the face after you just released the Artist Creator Club, which seemed like a real effort to support creatives on Twitch. Those efforts ring hollow compared to your actions by releasing this emote.
Make it right. Remove the emote and replace it with something either drawn by a real artist or edited from a real photo. Promise to prevent all future use of generative AI in global emotes so that those of us who oppose it never have to see this harmful practice being used in our chats.
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  • KirynnVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    so gross that twitch thought this was okay
  • antonioacai commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am very disappointed in twitch were using AI as a universal remote. Please respect artist of the platform by removing any AI emotes. This only does more harm than good as it is not supportive of the artist on the platform.
  • tomharmamamamamamamamathy commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch has a brilliant community of artists. Using terrible quality AI art is a slap in the face to those people. Stop being cheap and pay people properly to create quality products for your platform.
  • MyNameIsSchiro commented  ·   ·  Report

    You can find artists to make a cute cat in a Santa Hat. *I* could find an artist to draw a cute cat in a Santa Hat. For a very, very reasonable price. Generative AI is a plague upon creatives and has no place among a site built upon the backs of such Artists and Creatives.

    Shame on you, Twitch.
  • k1llerBnnuy commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is harmful to artists, the planet, and the only logical thing to get from seeing companies use AI isn't that they want to save cost, but that they are a scam through and through
  • DreeGvt commented  ·   ·  Report

    Truly gross. I assure you there are artists out there that would make an emote just for credit in the tweet about it.

  • Vulon_Bii commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative AI will be the downfall of everyone.
  • Li_Meanie commented  ·   ·  Report

    Not make Ai Emotes A think it takes away the accomplishment of actual artist.
  • Glisby commented  ·   ·  Report

    stop trying to save some money rather than pay artists to make good quality looking things, this looks terrible a person on fiver could create a better result.
  • oswin234 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Support our artist. Don't use AI Art.
  • PyroTeamkill commented  ·   ·  Report

    Lets not be polluting this platform or the planet with AI slop please
  • UlvarMarson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch should not be using AI art in their emotes. There are thousands of artists which would do it for not much cost, using AI just shows their morals when it comes to their users.
  • sewingbear commented  ·   ·  Report

    Getting a photo of an irl cat and slapping a hat on it would have been 100% better.

  • LuneEvenfall commented  ·   ·  Report

    How hard is it to take a picture of a cat in a santa hat? Or asking any of the thousands of artists that make their home on Twitch to make one? I unequivocally stand against AI being used in any capacity on Twitch.
  • AsterFinn commented  ·   ·  Report

    using AI is such a bad move when twitch as a whole THRIVES off of artistry and creativity, it's such a slap in the face of every artist on twitch
  • SaltyBottoms commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm a literal artist about to lose my house because of stuff like this. People would rather use AI garbage because it's free instead of paying real artists to make real quality art to use. Do better, Twitch. This is unforgivable and unacceptable.
  • EntranceJew commented  ·   ·  Report

    adding an obtuse incentive to juice the metrics of your new feature and backing it with literal machine generated trash is horrible, the last thing I need is more eyesore global emotes that nobody felt passionate enough to make themselves.
    what was the point of going out of your way to add 'emote artist' badges if you were gonna just do this type of junk?
  • Kurenai_Hideyoshi commented  ·   ·  Report

    We must all push to continue inspiring people to create on their own merits, rather than letting machines override artistic freedom.

    Remember, everyone… PICK UP THE PENCIL! Take the journey, for the gratification of hard work outweighs the cheap rush of generative slop!
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