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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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  • manicpixelbeangirl commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please don't use AI art, especially when you've got one of the most talented collections of artists on the platform who would be more than happy to help make new emotes.

  • margabrita commented  ·   ·  Report

    All these talented artists in the Twitch space and you decide to use generative AI…..
  • WhimsicalWisty commented  ·   ·  Report

    How in the hek could you have thought an AI emote was a good idea? You have so many incredibly talented artists at your fingertips that could have done a much better job than that monstrosity. Get it out and use your actual resources.

  • gothhankhill commented  ·   ·  Report

    Nothing says "we don't care about our userbase OR about looking corny and too cheap to commission a real human artist" like AI emotes :D
  • NyammyTheNekomancer commented  ·   ·  Report

    pay ur artists, the trash AI wouldnt be as good without the art it steals from them
  • MalDefekt commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is such a bad look, twitch. No one wants the ai garbage. It's cheap, it's uncanny, it's a slap in the face to every artist out there, it says "i don't care about anything but profit", it ruins the environment, I could go on.

    I think it's actually time us users take this to your shareholders and investors, honestly. They'll listen when they realize a decent portion of the userbase (a chunk of their money makers) are about to high-tail it off the platform.

  • spindsey commented  ·   ·  Report

    This seems like a huge slap in the face to all the artists on Twitch who work hard at making emotes everyday. I imagine any of the artists would have happily made an emote for Twitch global.
  • zeniittinen commented  ·   ·  Report

    Use of AI in place of hiring humans is just so annoying. Like yeah it sometimes has its uses, like I've seen a paleontology artist create awesome paleo photos by photoshopping together different AI generated images of animals that don't exist. But using it to completely skip over the artistic process is not cool.
  • omnominus commented  ·   ·  Report

    sometimes it feels like twitch is actually staffed by an AI that doesn't even have access to twitch
  • Mithcairion commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm appalled that Twitch thought this was a good idea. It's theft, it's harmful, it's irresponsible, and that it was green-lit at all sends a horrible message. They need to do the right thing and remove it immediately. I'd rather have no holiday emote than this abomination.
  • Kaldannan commented  ·   ·  Report

    This flagrant disrespect to the creatives on Twitch is galling. You could very easily have featured any of the literal hundreds of artists on the platform instead of this cheap garbage. On top of that, are y'all aware that generative AI is as destructive to the environment as NFTs are? This shortsightedness and willful laziness for ****** emotes is disgusting. I unequivocally DO NOT WANT AI-generated emotes anywhere on Twitch — and yes, I will 100% cancel my Twitch subs in favour of funding my friends directly if that's what it takes for you to listen.
  • RayxVen commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI should never be used this way and it's irresponsible that twitch may be choosing to implement AI art into our content. My community and I are absolutely 100% against this.

  • Millizitas commented  ·   ·  Report

    Dont steal Artist their jobs + AI looks not good at all!
  • Shayde_Reynard commented  ·   ·  Report

    I wholeheartedly stand against AI. It takes away from the talented artists that deserve that right. This is abhorrent. Especially on this platform.

  • CoolGuyEnzo commented  ·   ·  Report

    some random 14yr old could have made this in photoshop in 15 minutes you did not have to stoop as low to steal from artists and use AI slop for this.
  • meowmiggons commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is so gross and could have been so easily avoided. Just pay a real artist to make such a simple emote!! Using slop emotes like this is a great to tell each artist on the platform that they aren't valued on Twitch.
  • kimmaginaryfriend commented  ·   ·  Report

    The LITERAL bare minimum you can do is hire an artist that is ON THIS PLATFORM. There's no shortage. Do better.

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