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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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  • Mindhero1 commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is just stupid. You just created creator clubs for artists. Way to tell us that you don't give a **** about artists.

  • Giraffehustler commented  ·   ·  Report

    How in the 50 states of freedom and all that is butter based did you mess up a picture of a kitten so hard. JUST TAKE A PICTURE OF A REAL KITTEN IT TAKES LIKE 3 MINUTES!
  • Hyper_Sonic__ commented  ·   ·  Report

    You're a disgrace to the University of Texas, Daniel Clancy. Do better.
  • SirBink524 commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are hundreds of artists that are willing to work with you.
    There is no excuse at all to resort to AI slop
  • LysanderMorgensonne commented  ·   ·  Report

    C'mon, Twitch, that censorship thing you tried to pull a little while back, and now this? You're supposed to be better than that. Be the platform that sets the gold standard for others and set a good example, you can do it. Cut the generated, scraped content, and uplift the people here that not only make amazing media, but ARE WHAT MAKE YOU A PLATFORM AT ALL. Without us you don't exist. It's a symbiosis, don't be a parasite <3
  • Miss_Grey21 commented  ·   ·  Report

    DOWN WITH AI GENERATED ART! Please support REAL artists Twitch!
  • vinniousart commented  ·   ·  Report

    Lol Twitch can't commission one of the hundreds of amazing artists on it's own platform? You can try and shove AI down my throat as hard as you want, I'll just simply stop giving you my money!
  • Riderpride639 commented  ·   ·  Report

    This goes beyond disgusting. Decision-makers at Twitch continue to fail to look at the state of things around them, and fail to recognize their community. With so many artists on the platform, you'd think that they'd have at least two functioning brain cells to reach out to a single one to ask for a commissioned work, rather than using a (terrible) AI program.
  • shimadamochi commented  ·   ·  Report

    Mediocre companies always accept mediocre products such as AI generated images because they can't do better to afford for more. Are you broke twitch?
  • kalamagia commented  ·   ·  Report

    Unrelated to any ethics about AI, that cat picture is in the deepest pits of the uncanny valley.
  • ozzmand commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch you have a community of artist willing to do art at no cost just because they want to support the community

    You could literally have made a contest put all art on a list click random and still would be far far better than the AI **** you made
  • ThatMaestroGuy commented  ·   ·  Report

    Deplorable on every level. Please remove this GenAI emote immediately.
  • FrostieFiend commented  ·   ·  Report

    Completely lame and a betrayal to the artists and other hard working on your platform
  • TheActualLynx commented  ·   ·  Report

    If you want to use AI instead of content creators then just make a completely different platform and see how well that goes. This AI **** will never get the same support and you know that
  • Breadsticc commented  ·   ·  Report

    What everyone else said, times 1billion
  • Minx_the_Tiger commented  ·   ·  Report

    As an artist who works with other artists...using AI slop is disgusting. This has to stop.
  • LuigiMcDingle commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's genuinely more work to get access to an AI generator, put in all the stupid little tags you need to generate an image, and pick out a good one than it would be to nab a picture of a cat and stick a Santa hat on it- even better, Google "cat in santa hat stock image" and you'll get tons of royalty-free results that would fit in nicely as an emote! The only reason to use AI for this is to hop on the tech bro bandwagon, and it's super sad to see.
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