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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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  • trevfrancis commented  ·   ·  Report

    There's so many artists on twitch - thousands of people would have jumped at the chance to make this. This feels like a weird step to make.
  • house0fcross commented  ·   ·  Report

    Get that AI out of here. Stop alienating the amazing artists on your site.
  • ArevenantOne commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is really useful for a lot of things. This is not one of them.
  • ZexMaxwell commented  ·   ·  Report

    twitch. you had so much talent on the platform. The amount of time you used to make the AI prompt, could have been done to hire and artist/run a contest.

  • crawlerette commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch is supposed to be a platform celebrating creativity and community between creators and their fans. How does using AI to make anything help you accomplish any of this?

  • Arkydos commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using AI to "replace" Stuff is a sure way to ruin. Short term it looks amazing: You don't have to pay anyone to make for example Artwork! Wow, awesome.
    But in the long run it has far too many downsides. Seeing Twitch not realizing this is disheartening to say the least... Stop this. AI can help, but should and will never replace.
  • Bouncy2D commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hey Twitch, let's not do this. Celebrate your artists, do not shun them.
  • Samurai_Seven commented  ·   ·  Report

    Absolutely sickening to use AI generated emote art on a platform that is FULL of emote artists who would be thrilled and honored to be tapped to make a global Twitch emote. Doesn't seem very "we all bleed purple together rah rah Twitch family" when your actions are horrendously insulting to the artists on this platform and disrespectful of the genuine hard work, talent, and creativity real emote artists put into their creations. STOP IT, TWITCH!
  • SparrdaBG commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch is a place, where artists can get exposure to help support themselves. It is one of the lifelines they have for their lively-hood.

    The smart thing to do - is create a public event, where those artists can compete to get their own work as the "Holiday Emote". That will both help artists get better, have more exposure and Twitch can do a cool thing for their community.

    Instead Twitch has decided to use Generative AI - which is currently comprised of mostly STOLEN data. Unless Twitch can fully confirm that they have paid every artist whose work was used on the training module for that AI - then that will remain the case.

    I would like to finish off by saying - Taking away a person's lively-hood, is a kin to killing that person. Help promote your artists' work, don't help rip them off.

  • Intaro_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    As an artist, with artist friends. Generative AI being used to create a publicly used emote feels hurtful. Our work may be ripped off with Generative AI. This is not the future, this is how you are shunned as a platform by one of the largest and passionate community, which is artists. It is Greedy doing this and NEEDS to not be supported.
  • lordumarill commented  ·   ·  Report

    How could you decide to NOT use art from an artist but from an ai that steals from artist?
  • ArkSofia commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why use a poor excuse for a digital assistant (commonly called generative AI) when your own TOS won't let others use it? Follow your own rules.
  • Duazzet commented  ·   ·  Report

    How did you think this is a good idea? Emote made with AI... You have platfrom full of creative artists and you decide to use AI that is more than likely trained on stolen content. that is f'd up. Remove and be better next time. Pay artist to make the emotes. And do not be sorry, be better and fix this
  • muffinderper commented  ·   ·  Report

    Stop being lazy and greedy. Just pay a **** artist so you'll have an Emote that doesn't look like ****, and violates you're own TOS. Looking like a clown right now Twitch
  • MrTindall commented  ·   ·  Report

    No A.I. for emotes period but that's a lot harder to enforce. Instead, be a company that stands by its artists and creatives and make GOOD emotes and don't take shortcuts
  • Darkside1188 commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have an entire creative section for a reason, make a competition, reach out to an art streamer of your choice and commission them. Don't be lazy and use AI.
  • Daxcend commented  ·   ·  Report

    That AI Cat was really bad and also. they are artitst that are really good at this and have an oppertunity to maybe make a living out of it to make emotes for streamer or themselves and now you gonna have a lifeless machine create "Art" without any soul? Naaa mate.
    Im all for AI in certain situations, but not to replace art with it.

    A concernd twitch viewer
  • Folks578 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Get the **** out of here with that. I know daddy amazon has you by the balls but if you're using AI for your art then you never had any balls to grab.
  • Vaesse1975 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative AI is based on theft and completely disregards the work of artists. You have many artists who would have been thrilled to make this emote. Please do not do this to your community.
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