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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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  • wiwi commented  ·   ·  Report

    Genuinely a shame to see Twitch use and endorse AI on a platform with so many talented artists on it. Many of who in fact, deliver revenue to said website.

  • TealEmile commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch using AI art is a HUGE insult to all the artists that have helped build its community.
  • RouletteNoire commented  ·   ·  Report

    Respectfully twitch, if you guys are upping the prices for twitch subs consistently each month, y'all have enough money to pay an artist (or Photoshop it for free, even shorter time than it would to generate a "perfect" emote)

  • hyperqyq commented  ·   ·  Report

    Totally unnecessary use of AI.
  • Seiaeka commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a gross slap in the face to all of the artists who use your platform.
  • Espion7 commented  ·   ·  Report

    We don't **** with AI in this house
  • AlloftheSquids commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch, this is disgusting. Current AI generation is built by scraping and stealing the art of actual creatives, which Twitch has in droves, and using the resulting models to cut artists out of the creative process. There is no conceivable reason to use a piece of generated slop instead of something actually made by a human being.
  • madolchegelato commented  ·   ·  Report

    stop using AI trash it's so annoying! i'm a digital artist that actually draws emotes for small streamers tbh this is like a huge slap in the face
  • kirbyzaz commented  ·   ·  Report

    Genuinely tired seeing humans being replaced like this almost on a daily basis, no one deserves this.
  • timokusu commented  ·   ·  Report

    Funny how this site asked me if I'm human before I could vote

  • LoveSoapie commented  ·   ·  Report

    People are moving away from your platform anyway and yet you decide to hit them with AI art? When you have one of the biggest creative communities on the internet right now? Makes no sense to drive us all away faster.

  • lushenzener commented  ·   ·  Report

    Any prestige, notoriety, or cultural influence Twitch has is built upon the back of human endeavor, human creativity, and human labor. To use generative AI theft for any of its content spits in the face of everybody that's ever contributed to the community.
  • Nocturhi commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please support real artists, don’t use AI.
  • Kol_Lateral commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch has such a large community of artists, their best first-party emotes are from community photos, and they decide to pull this. This is such a middle finger to us.
  • shreddercola commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch is held up in large part by artists, and the use of AI art for emotes or other facets of the website is disgusting.

    Say no to any AI art on Twitch!
  • B3NNYViOLENT commented  ·   ·  Report

    They have the option to attribute emotes to artists. There are so many banger artist on Twitch. Commission one, attribute the emote to that artist. Seems like a no brainer.

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