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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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  • fyerluna commented  ·   ·  Report

    I understand that it's "just an emote" but if I, an independent lone creator, can afford to pay an artist to design my banners then surely you'll still have enough profit at the end of the day if you paid and credited a human artist to do this for you.
  • SFRCloudy commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch needs to state if this is an AI emote or not. It should also be a rule not to include AI emotes. It's just the start of a slippery slope of using AI for everything and phasing out any humans in the creative proccess.
  • Taliyeh commented  ·   ·  Report

    using ai slop on a site primarily made up of creatives is insane
  • LoneCatamount commented  ·   ·  Report

    You should be celebrating your art community and uplifting the talents of the artists, Not take the trendy and easy way out using AI. Did you really think about this? or think that no one would care or notice? Do and Be better than other big companies.
  • lizardosaur commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hugely disappointed in twitch for using AI emotes.
  • OakteaParty commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using generative AI emotes says that you are not interested in supporting artists. You can't claim to support artists in one instance and then do this in another.

  • HoneyBellyBee commented  ·   ·  Report

    I cannot put into words how disappointing it was to see generative AI being used on a platform that claims to support artists. Change this. Do better.
  • HeroBonZo commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please remove AI generated global Twitch emotes!
  • BigTopTanuki commented  ·   ·  Report

    There's already AI channels that need to go, but AI emotes now? What is it with companies that want to invade human creators with this garbage?
  • MachoGoSavage commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using AI for emotes is disgusting. Artists are what making twitch such a vibrant place. Why use something that ***** on them
  • ThejaVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    As an artist, it makes me upset to see the use of generative AI being used for site-wide emotes. What's next? Scraping the art category?
  • PyroxDev commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a non-artist who has many artist friends on twitch, this is immensely disappointing. Many of them rely on twitch to find commissions, interact with their community, and enjoy themselves. This completely trashes that feeling. Now, instead of using real artists, paid for their work, we get AI slop pushed onto us as Global Emotes. This is completely disgusting and irresponsible. Why not commission one of the literal thousands of artists on Twitch to make an emoji for you? That would have been a much better solution, and wouldn't burn down a rainforest.
  • lonely__shrimp commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are so many talented artists and designers in the twitch community. This would have been a lovely moment to commemorate the giving season and commission one of us to design a cute emote. Instead, twitch decided to spit in all of our faces and draw their inspiration from men like Ebenezer Scrooge- employing generative AI despite numerous concerns about theft, artists losing jobs due to reliance on AI, and concerns over the ecological and workforce related concerns in running these AI databanks.

  • shadowytigress commented  ·   ·  Report

    Y'all are really gonna use AI instead of the THOUSANDS of artists on Twitch??? How sick would it look if Y'all made a huge art contest and let artists submit a single Emote and then you guys chose the top 50 or 109 or whatever? That would be beneficial AND look great for Twitch.

  • HoopdogTheKing commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is awful. There are creators that would LOVE to make an emote for global use! Why make an AI emote when you could have done a fun social media campaign/competition with artists submitting emotes? This is so lazy, uncreative, and from a business standpoint, a HUGE missed investment.
  • khalid_moonlight commented  ·   ·  Report

    How can you be a platform that promote creators, yet you would rather give all their hard work to AI…? HUGE double standard!
  • 8BitRickk commented  ·   ·  Report

    We (twitch) have PLENTY of talented artists and you chose to go with lazy a** AI. You can do better, question is will you?

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