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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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  • GothFoxVK commented  ·   ·  Report

    **** twitch's ******** AGAIN. Big **** no.
  • MechaSonder commented  ·   ·  Report

    Absolutely **** using AI for anything art related
  • TheBlackParrot commented  ·   ·  Report

    With the amount of artists that use your platform, you literally cannot deny you just didn't want to shell out a few dollars for a simple emote commission. I'd bet some of them would even do it for free (which, is also bad in this case, imo, but whatever).

    The emote looks awful by the way. So many things wrong with it lol
  • AirConditioning_Unit commented  ·   ·  Report

    Honestly dissappointing. It would take a day(an hour or two even) and 50 bucks at most to commission someone to photoshop this emote. It'd be better for the environment, be supporting the artists giving so much value to this platform, and actually look good too. Do better Twitch staff.
  • GhostKumo commented  ·   ·  Report

    Can literally pay someone less money for a picture of their cat's face than the amount you'd be paying someone to stare at OpenAI and edit whatever slop comes out to look slightly less slop

    No to AI images for emotes
  • Penyunne commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI issues aside, the emote itself is ugly and not cute at all

    There are thousands of creatives on twitch who would jump at the chance to be featured on the platform in exchange for making emotes. Twitch could've done some sort of contest or just reached out to a creator of their choice but instead they come up with this trash

    for what? to save a few dollars?

    gross
    get rid of the emote !
  • HermitWolfe commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative AI while you have a massive artist community is insane! Stop trying this ****. Support artists! Real Artists! Not AI generate art based on theft!

  • kayuera commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative AI is theft. Full stop. Get that garbage out of here.

  • Vailahteir commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch HAS to stop it with the AI ******** if they don't want to completely burn the bridges of the creative who MAKE the website what it is

  • J1gglyButt3r commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please remove this. AI has no place anywhere, let alone Twitch.
  • pinkwisp commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch as a platform is built on creativity and self-expression, and the use of AI goes against all of that. Do better, Twitch.
  • tawnia commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is trash and should never be used in the place of a real creative person. Plus, that cat emote looked ugly, a human person would have made something much cuter that people would, like, actually use. Who would use that other abomination?
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