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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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  • Vayash commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch, you have too many people drawing on your platform to do something like this.
  • DJClicheDarkness commented  ·   ·  Report

    Pretty bad move for a platform that has one of the largest creative communities in existence.
  • Jartzanator commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch must promote different artists of various backgrounds from across the world to create global emotes!
  • bubbasquishious commented  ·   ·  Report

    support the creators on your platform stop this weird ai ****

  • scarob commented  ·   ·  Report

    I get you're just "testing the waters" doing this with a temp emote, but why? Broadcasting openly that you choose cost savings over community even with the smallest decisions. please just skip the emote next time, it is less insulting
  • FenixSeraph commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's hideous and takes the fun and creativity out of human-made emotes.
  • Skari commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is atrocious. What a Kick move by a platform that was supposed to be better.
  • clown_b0nez commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is just bad all around man. looks ugly, disrespectful towards artists, generally ruining the world. literally no reason to use AI omg
  • CrimsyCreates commented  ·   ·  Report

    1. F*** AI. Nobody likes AI.

    2. You could have used this as an opportunity to showcase Twitch's talented creatives or even do a fun little competition out of it, but you went for THAT instead ?? Someone higher up needs to have a word with whoever thought this was in the realm of good ideas because-

    3. **** nah, that ain't it bucko.
  • AKATheSkay commented  ·   ·  Report

    The decision was tone deaf as **** twitch. Stop telling artists indirectly they don't matter while at the same time ripping them off.
  • Lopaoli commented  ·   ·  Report

    The sad part is, an emote is CHEAP. Most artists only charge about $10 for one. Using AI to create emotes is an insult to every artist who streams on Twitch.
  • HealingDamage commented  ·   ·  Report

    You know it's a bad idea when you decide to use AI **** to make a Share Emote instead of the THOUSANDS of Emote artists on your platform when almost every prominent streamer calls you out and has a petition to dismantle that AI cat emote

    Waita ******* go, Twitch. (signed)
  • roobeedooo commented  ·   ·  Report

    This AI-Generated emote is the worst thing Twitch could have given the community they have built. This is a massive "you do not matter and have no future" to the very artists Twitch supports. This has already done irreparable damage to the community's trust in their leaders.

    How did this get past all of the marketing team? This is disgusting and embarrassing. Keep this up and the community WILL turn on you. You will lose artists over this. It's that serious.

  • stonerox commented  ·   ·  Report

    agreed, really gross using AI for this
  • cndyballfluff commented  ·   ·  Report

    Feels like a slap in the face to vtubers especially when one of your most subbed streamer was ironmouse, who has said she loves supporting artist and its one of the reasons she has many models
  • LuvLainey11 commented  ·   ·  Report

    twitch is supposed to be about supporting CREATORS, which AI is NOT. ai harms creators and is generally unpleasant to look at. twitch should not be using ai, especially generative ai, for their platform.

  • moemai_art commented  ·   ·  Report

    Do NOT USE AI FOR EMOTES. In fact, do not use ai for anything an artist could be paid to do, that's all thank you

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