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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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  • Bard_Core commented  ·   ·  Report

    There needs to be clarity here. If the Ai is trained under licences from creators and artists who have been paid. While I am hesitant, I would be willing to give this a pass. But as far as I am aware, there has not been any information related to this other than the release of this emote.

    Please understand: If you wish to tread on ground like this, be open with what you are doing. We have seen what companies think of consumers, directly and indirectly.

    Especially with Ai, you must be as clear as possible. Considering the vocal community you harbor, you must consider them, as well as your standing with the community at large. Regardless of your own thinking, it is dangerous to take your own word via the company alone. Your community dictates this, not focus groups or analysts.

    Take careful consideration of this matter, if anything else. That is all I ask.
  • Coldtrojan commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using AI generated content is a move against creatives showing that you're ok with using stolen labor rather than paying for the work to be done. Or even asking for it for free, although as a big company that may be frowned upon too, at least you're not using what amounts to theftware.

    Please remove AI generated content. Many creatives use Twitch and want to continue using Twitch as their platform, support your userbase.
  • Autobanned commented  ·   ·  Report

    A community full of artists and you pay a robot to make the art? disrespectful
  • tishychanvt commented  ·   ·  Report

    NO AI!

    For a platform that relies on creators and creativity, it's an insult.
  • Hutch2MuchOwO commented  ·   ·  Report

    i think i speak for most artists when i say generative ai can shove it. shame on twitch.
  • Shiru666 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative AI is bad for artists. Twitch should make a stand, say they were wrong and commission someone to do it instead. We want for the brand where we consume and produce content to be aware of the harms of this kind of technology. Take a stand for artists--where would you be without them?!
  • 8G36 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Shame on you twitch for considering this. You're disrespecting every artist out there and broke their trust. Disgusting.
  • OldSoulRathael commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI-generated content, art, audio, video, and AI ID Verification are all despised by anyone trying to make or support an honest living. Adding in trickles of AI-generated imagery will further sour relations with everyone already scorned by the dismissive "support" behavior in response to the failings of With Persona for ID verification.

    Just spend the $10 or $15 a small time emote artist would have charged for a cat in a Christmas hat.
  • LowPolyBunny commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a slap in the face to all the hard-working artists on your platform. Shame on you for even considering this.
  • AtticusTheMythologist commented  ·   ·  Report

    You cannot be creator focus as you so claim to be and then go and utilize something that takes away from the entire creative community like this. Honestly there's no reason for this.
  • AnubianThe13 commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have a literal art category and you use the thing many artists are saying hurts them, their livelyhood? What kind of message are you sending to those who draw on your platform? Do better; reject Generative AI
  • Exandyr commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a slippery slope, AI art isn't it, and there will be a massive twitch exodus if you continue down this path. Change now
  • FirestormCAN commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative AI is theft, trained on human work taken without consent. It is an inefficient waste of resources, natural and man-made. It is against the very concept of art and creativity.

    Twitch is owned and funded by a multi-billion dollar juggernaut. You have thousands upon thousands of artists on your platform. Yet you decided to take the cheap way out and let a few slabs of silicon build this monstrosity.

    Disgraceful. Get rid of that garbage and pay a human artist for this emote or don't make new emotes at all.
  • CaveDweller92 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Seriously, they could have had an intern do it in like 15 minutes. Really, being credited on twitch's official might even have been enough payment for a smaller emote artist.

  • ChiiFett commented  ·   ·  Report

    Dont use AI to replace the many of talented artists. What a joke
  • sleepy_cricket commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using AI makes Twitch's brand look too cheap to hire real artists, and immediately sours all artists from broadcasting on the platform. This isn't a good look from a moral or a business standpoint, and will only serve to drive people away from Twitch. It should do all artists a favour, remove the emote, and never touch AI again.
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