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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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  • VenatrixVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    Emote artists have always been an important part of the Twitch ecosystem. This is insulting.
  • KennyTheCoolest commented  ·   ·  Report

    Very disappointed in twitch :( could’ve been very cute if made by real artist, and so many artists would have loved to do it, including me!
  • StrangeOthers commented  ·   ·  Report

    No, I do not wish to have ai generated slop on twitch.
  • Thrax commented  ·   ·  Report

    Huge disappointment Twitch. So many emote artists and VETERANS that yall have yet to ask for help from.
  • midimayo commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI image generation doesn't belong on a creative platform.
    AI image generation does not belong anywhere.
  • koutarowls commented  ·   ·  Report

    Employ real artists. AI “art” is soulless and harmful. I can’t say it’s entirely unexpected of Twitch to do this, but it is certainly disappointing nonetheless.
  • pockydood commented  ·   ·  Report

    Plagiarism software is a blight on civil rights. Its propagation means using exploitation to trample on the livelihoods of the creatives that make this site and every other one worth visiting. Every dirtbag involved with making this ****** addition come to pass ought to be fired and excommunicated from any position tied to the creative industry.
  • BriCatLoafs commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have plenty of artists in your community. Don't take away an opportunity by using AI!!
  • JLassie commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are some fabulous artist on the platform that would be exited to create global emotes! Its not like they are costly. Please keep AI art out of this area and respect your community

  • WildFaye commented  ·   ·  Report

    For people who like to appear as big supporters of the arts, I'm very disappointed that they're testing the waters with this.
    Death to AI "ART".
  • Megalofyte commented  ·   ·  Report

    The use of generative AI only serves to cheapen the experience of a product or service. I and many others see AI art and think less of those who use it.

  • ScraggMaestro commented  ·   ·  Report

    Death to AI art, it doesn't belong in Animation, it doesn't belong in Films, it doesn't belong on Twitch, and it doesn't belong ANYWHERE.
  • GokaiOrange commented  ·   ·  Report

    Death to AI art, on Twitch and everywhere else.
  • ever_entropy commented  ·   ·  Report

    You could have gotten a REAL cat from the office or hired an artist but this emote is just truly disconcerting and obviously fake. It shows a huge lack of respect for artists and also looks like you were too cheap to afford something better. ****, you could have adopted a cat from a shelter, named them Twitch and made them an emote.
  • brodrian commented  ·   ·  Report

    Absolutely ridiculous that this has to be said when there are so many incredible artists within creator communities. No slop please.
  • UoriMoon commented  ·   ·  Report

    I agree. Literally just created the Artist club only to throw out an AI generated sloppy emote like a middle finger to the whole community.
  • FrostedFricks commented  ·   ·  Report

    On a platform full of artist at their disposal, they chose the cheap, disgusting path of AI. Disrespectful

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