Lovely how Twitch could always function without ai. Dont be another one of THOSE companies, and i imagine its so hard for the "ai artists" to accept that most of us have been putting a soul into our REAL artwork. They wont understand the struggle most of us go through :)

You have TONS of amazing artists on your platform and you couldn't play someone to make you an emote. No AI global chat emotes, get that stuff off this site, its insulting.

Twitch has enough money to pay for a full art piece, which means they definitely have the money to pay an artist for a single emote, which would cost less than $50. Then there’s the fact that there are artists who would be willing to make an emote for free. Twitch has no excuse to betray the art community and their users with ai generated garbage

You have so many creators/artists who would love a chance to have a global emote. They are the backbone to what creates twitch, please don't use AI to surcomvent creativity.

Shame on Twitch and staff for using generative AI

It is still there, twitch doesn't care about artists. As long as it has mr beast, right????!!! the youtuber???!?! from youtube??!??!! love being an artist with real concerns and getting absolutely ignored by big corporation

What happened Twitch....

The problem is... person below me... It takes jobs away from artists which are already suffering tremendously because of AI taking jobs away from them. Of course they're going to be upset. Their entire livelihood that they've spent thousands of hours on just to perfect a style that is consistent enough for commissions, is being replaced by a tool that's stealing their data, is incredibly inefficient, and just an easy way out to avoid having to pay artists for emotes. As you can see by how bad CatInTheChat looks; even a "good" result from GenAI looks absolutely terrible. Using GenAI for art is stealing jobs, erasing the time it takes for artists to hone their craft, and just spitting in the face of all artists. I'm not even an artist, and I fully understand why they're furious at the advent of AI art. Especially when it steals from real world artists. Photographers, Digital Artists, Traditional artists, other artists; they're all victims of their work stolen for GenAI.

The use of AI art is perfectly fine. "Someone could have done it" is a bad argument for why is bad.

"Artists" feeling bad is not a reason to not do things. Because different groups always feel good or bad for all kind of things.

Lets keep the AI and lets use it for even more things. Tools are meant to be use. Protesting calculators to keep human computers was silly and still is silly OwO

Generative AI is an insult to all artists, like myself, who use this platform to stream our art processes. Generative AI steals from real artists to even function, which is already bad enough, but it's also harmful to the environment as it burns through a ton of natural resources to do even minimal work. This is a disgusting move by Twitch and I'm once again incredibly frustrated, disappointed, and displeased with your decision to include such an awful thing on your platform.

Sheesh. For a company that insists on supporting artists and the like,
Such as: DJ’ers, bodypainters, Digitial and Traditional Artists, freaking Artist Alley in TwitchCon every single year…
The executive decision was to support the community by offering AI generated emotes?!
no. You’ve done a blight decision on the community as a whole. Reverse this decision and do better or be losing that potential opportunity with the millions you get just from subs. Heck, my own subs and others commenting here can pay for this kind of stuff and more on a real artists and you have millions to choose from!
Go do better.

You most certainly have the money to commission real human artists for emotes. Save the AI tool as it was meant to be: a tool, and nothing more. Something to help support or mitigate a project, not to **** out a half-assed product with no credibility. Please do better.

smh

Shoving a ****** product that doesn't even look good into everything isn't gonna make people want it any more. Stop the grifting, Twitch. You have the money to pay real artists, you greedy bastards.

Just a few months ago we were praising Twitch for commissioning REAL artists from the community to make the new and incredible hype train emotes. Then this?? One step forward, 500 f***ing steps back, Twitch. If this was a decision by super-spreader Clancy, I once again say that he needs removed as CEO. Bad decision after bad decision that is eroding this platform year by year, month by month.

I totally agree instead of using a fun competition where you use the winners art as an emote, were the artists are rewarded for there effort, they use this AI nonsense.

Twitch has an incredible community of artists, so why oh why would you use AI? There's a place for AI in the world, but it's not in the arts. Stop it.

No. Just no.

Where AI belongs:
- improving the human condition
- jobs no one wants to do
- in video games as interesting challenges

Where AI doesn't belong:
- generating art, literature and other human undertakings

Stop trying to replace, not only humans, but human creativity itself. I can't wait for the day that AI only has itself to feed off of, I hope that ruins it in irreparable ways and forces generative AI companies to shut down.

Literally no reason to use generative AI over commissioning an artist from the twitch community. You decided to alienate your audience instead of taking the chance to create a community contest which would give you a lot better publicity and allow artist that use your platform to show themselves to the world.