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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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  • ZorroCrusader commented  ·   ·  Report

    YOU HAVE LIKE HUNDRED OF ARTIST ON YOUR PLATFORM ITS NOT THAT HARD TO PICK ONE AND SAY HEY WANT TO MAKE A SILLY CHRISTMAS THEMED EMOTE FOR US?

  • MajoraAjoram commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please respect artists and your general audience by removing this emote. It is very disappointing to see a big platform like yours using such a cheap and lazy medium.
  • pudgynell commented  ·   ·  Report

    Of all places, Twitch doesn't have enough artists to do this the right way?
  • kingu__art commented  ·   ·  Report

    No way a million dollar company like yours has to relay on AI when hundreds and hundreds of talented artists are in your plataform, this is beyond disgusting and embarrasing.
  • JamieTheBnnuy commented  ·   ·  Report

    How hard is it to just take a picture of an actual cat and photoshop a santa hat on it lmao
  • Leonan_Brin commented  ·   ·  Report

    The fact that Twitch has an entire category for artists, which brings thousands of talented artists every day to the platform to show their skills, but still decided that this A.I. slop was a better option than commissioning a human is something that should have never happened.

    And it needs to be fixed immediately.

  • StaryAnna commented  ·   ·  Report

    Theres thousands of talented artists on your platform. That you could have comissioned for an emote. Please support real artists. AI art is theft and the models to create it is stolen work from real artists. Please dont support that!
  • DetectiveTato commented  ·   ·  Report

    This platform has thousands of artists to pull from and so many incentives to pull from, the community.. the whole reason twitch is popular, why there is AI trash as emotes is disconnected and disappointing

  • JoshQuake commented  ·   ·  Report

    Here here! The use of AI is super disappointing and just shouts "we put zero effort and zero cents into this"
  • MrTommo999 commented  ·   ·  Report

    SOOO i have voted for this (as i agree we shouldn't condone art) what i would ALSO advise people to do it BAN the e-mote. this in turn makes people not want to use it in chats
  • nicolarz commented  ·   ·  Report

    It is insulting to your users and your content creators to use AI. No one wants this.
  • ASimpleSir commented  ·   ·  Report

    Art and creativity practically built this platform, along with the careers of the streamers whom this corporation would be nothing without.

  • GotALife64 commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI art is theft

    Twitch should feel disappointed in themselves
  • TheFaaborg commented  ·   ·  Report

    Funny how Twitch has a platform of creative people but choices to be cheap as **** and not ask their community to help them out and get a global emote in return...
  • Kittenball commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI never has any place in creative endeavors. Generative AI is based on theft and non-consensual use of actual artists' works. It has absolutely no place on Twitch. Care about your creators, especially those of us that make REAL art.
  • Taqterra commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch is all about community, within which you have many talented in house artists and streamers
  • GramophoneTurtle commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is so gross and disappointing. Pay an artist to do this instead of relying on work stolen from artists! Stop contributing to the environmental damage generative AI causes. If you can't afford to pay an artist to make this that sure is saying something.

    I've debated blocking/banning global emotes I don't like but this is going be the first one I'm going do it for, even though I clearly won't be trying to get it.
  • tea_loving_firebender commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is a disgrace to any creative industry. It is a very shameful, tasteless form of mass plagiarism. To see Twitch using such disgusting practices makes me quite upset

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