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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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  • xSilverSugar commented  ·   ·  Report

    I do not approve of Generative AI being used for emotes or indeed anything where a human's artistic expression should be used. Support artists! Should Twitch continue to use AI in the future (especially undisclosed) I will leave the platform.
  • obtchuary commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is truly a slap in the face to the artists on this platform. All that money and they can't hire and showcase actual artists.
  • REVEL_dot_EXE commented  ·   ·  Report

    You’d think a company owned by Amazon could afford to pay an artist
  • redactedskull commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's just sad they're doing this kind of ********...
  • Spriggles256 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Couldn't be bothered to find a cat picture on the internet? The easiest place to find cat pictures? For free?? Just straight up lazy :/
  • theannazon commented  ·   ·  Report

    You could have just spent 0-10 dollars on a single drawing of a cat with a hat. Unprofessional.
  • punkfence commented  ·   ·  Report

    A $46 billion company, that's attached to a $2.39 trillion company that can't spend $50 to hire a photographer, pay an artist, or pay for the rights to use an existing image of a cat?

  • BlueLuigi2401 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch couldn't find a decent cat picture? On the internet? And they resorted to AI just to get one? That's laughably inept.
  • wrenimod commented  ·   ·  Report

    you could easily find a free to use picture of a cat with the expression needed on google images and then slap a png of a santa hat on it in a few minutes and i'm sure it'd look better than the ai used if twitch is somehow worried about paying an artist or paying for image rights
  • jahtnamas commented  ·   ·  Report

    disgraceful. disgusting. unbecoming. unprofessional. evil.
  • MeVsYouOfficial commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ai bs, please pay real artists or commission someone for a picture of a cat. It seems like something so simple, I can't believe it even has to be said.

  • AdriftOnASea commented  ·   ·  Report

    So disrespectful to any artists and graphic designers who work at Twitch or stream on it. To just put some prompts into an AI and get a bad emote. Pay somebody to make a bad emote, or a good one, with those same prompts. You could even show them the AI one if you think it is close to what you want.

    If you did in fact pay someone to make it for you, then you have to learn the basics of what AI images look like. Get them or someone else to redo it. Even drawing over the emote would look better.
  • CadetHatSean commented  ·   ·  Report

    You could have asked anyone for a picture of a cat, surely a member of the dev team had a cat they could take a picture of and just...I dunno put a Santa hat on it in post. Were there like...zero cats in your vicinity? Did you have negative cats? Do you owe the cat distribution system a cat? Who hurt you?
  • GAUSSBARRELS commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is disrespectful, gaudy, AND shows Twitch is a lazy company that doesn't care about either its userbase OR seeming professional. If you can't even be bothered to hire a real artist, why should people be expected to fund you?
  • DixtheKobold commented  ·   ·  Report

    Such a massive spit in the face of artist that use twitch to stream, they could have literally gotten any of the millions of artist that work on the platform to make legit emotes for them. It's truly baffling to see them turn towards using AI generated images over something you can see someone put their heart and soul into making. Doesn't Twitch have Ambassadors that are real artist? How hard would it have been to ask them to make seasonal emotes? I'm tempted to go through and make all of twitches emotes blacklisted from being used in my chat simply because of this.

  • Berix2 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch is a platform built by creators and artists, and using generative AI like this during a time when unregulated AI is a threat to creators, including the ones who helped Twitch become as popular as it is today, is nothing more than slap in the face to hardworking and talented workers.
    This platform would be nothing without the talents of human creators, and even just for the sake of good relations with the public, I implore Twitch to cease future use of generative AI in the creation of global emotes. Creators and customers want companies who will support human artists, not corner cutting generative AI that puts profits above living people.
  • PunkyardDog commented  ·   ·  Report

    twitch has the money to pay artists. quit riding AI's ****
  • spiridiums commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have MILLIONS of users, an extremely high number of them reliably cat owners. It would be INCREDIBLY easy to ask one of them to take a photo of their cat wearing a santa hat. Or just take a photo of a cat and photoshop a santa hat onto it. It's not hard! AI is a detriment to the planet and I am disgusted that Twitch would think this is acceptable.
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