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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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  • gmRocky commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative AI comes with a plethora of concerns, it's not some cheap buzzword to be thrown around and used because "it's a tool that pays for itself in the long run". Its results are trash, those who support it are generally into other shady projects, and overall it shows just how inconsiderate the usage of it devalues all of the talented artists on the platform. How can you condone such a foolish choice when there is a literal Art category at your fingertips? There is no bounds to the shame which should be felt, but that may have been discarded long ago if this decision was the result of a consensus.
  • micromera commented  ·   ·  Report

    Its honestly extremely discouraging that we as artists, and creatives on twitch as a platform have to have this discussion, over and over with every platform. AI images are not wanted. Why would Twitch not choose to utilize or uplift one of the many extremely talented artists on the platform. Even taking a photo of a staff cat with a christmas hat. Anything other than this. Its truly disrespectful to artists as a whole.
  • storybook_tales commented  ·   ·  Report

    I for one absolutely want nothing to do AI wise with any of my socials. This is a terrible decision made by Twitch when it is built on creatives.

  • itsjustjawk commented  ·   ·  Report

    No way millions of artists use twitch and they couldn't hire a single one
  • acdramon commented  ·   ·  Report

    Deeply anti creator, there are artists who struggle on this platform and here you guys go, showing zero respect for them. Reverse this.
  • stinkybirdz commented  ·   ·  Report

    wow you're too poor to afford to pay for an emote? that's kind of embarrassing for you twitch
  • Vylesight commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch… you cannot be serious right now. How many times do we as creators and viewers, THE REASON THIS PLATFORM STILL EXISTS BTW, have to tell you to stop doing stuff that is actively harmful to your platform and its users? The community has been extremely outspoken against the use of AI, listed every type of harm it does, and you continue to slap us in the face. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!

    Get rid of the AI. Keep it off the platform. And get rid of your fossil of a CEO that is completely out of touch with this platform.

  • localmusickid commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are thousands of super talented creators that turn to your platform to help them grow and you just abandoned them by using AI
  • taneekz commented  ·   ·  Report

    Completely disrespectful to every artist out there. **** AI
  • Bombzyz commented  ·   ·  Report

    We should be encouraging creative work within a field that is entirely owned and ran by creatives. It would take equal amounts of time to create an emote this simple, with much less of the negative visual side-effects of using AI.

    You are a platform that promotes creativity. Don't diminish that by resorting to using AI to create simple small pictures.
  • Kelthraz commented  ·   ·  Report

    How can you have a platform with this many talented artists and decide to use AI for an emote? It's beyond baffling.
  • M1K3Editz commented  ·   ·  Report

    billion dollar company cant hire artist for 50$ to make a 5 minute photoshop edit of a cat in a hat
  • AikaTheDirtyRat commented  ·   ·  Report

    Seeing Twitch use gen AI feels like a slap to the face on all artists that been around here for years, art should be about people and culture, not....Whatever souless thing that is that actively steal people's art into a harmful amalgamation.
  • Hailen4Hire commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI Generation is a represenation of death of creative work. Twitch has made categories like music and art to support creatives and streamers who wish to create raw art for their audience. Seeing an AI generated emote is insulting and if I ever see any AI generated emotes in my chat created by Twitch or a random user. I will actively push aside and shame the creators of that emote.
  • stellamulberry90 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please stop using AI! A computer can not draw, they can not feel when it draws, it's not the same!

    We've spent DECADES of looking at traditional, 2d and 3d art that our eyes are artistically and critically able to point out what is flawed and not drawn well. AI is not going to last another 3 to 5 years, let alone next year.

    Just let human artists do your emotes! Please! You have the money to do that! They can do it so much better than a computer! A computer, by the by, with the help of another human on the other side of the world, upchucking an amalgamation of 'flawed perfection'

  • Aurora_Kosmik commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are tons of emote artists across the twitch platform who would be more then happy to work with twitch on holiday emotes. Nothing is more disheartening then seeing the platform that has direct access to a plethora of talent choose poorly constructed AI.
  • skykios commented  ·   ·  Report

    You got hundreds and thousands of artists at your disposal and you chose to be stingy and use AI for your emote? Generative AI steal ideas and assets created by artists, this is disgusting and embarrassing.
  • kokkismoki commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's literally a cat with a christmas hat. How lazy are these dudes oh my lord ;__; there is literally *thousands* of them online. Also believe it or not, people have cats at home.

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