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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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  • sillysushibean commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is not only art theift and lazy its also horrible for the environment. If twitch gose through with this it will basically be saying they don't respect human artists or the planet we live on. Do better.
  • venusvariation commented  ·   ·  Report

    Stop being cheap! Pay artists! This stuff with AI needs to stop. It’s everywhere and it’s going too **** far, unchecked. It’s raping kids, destroying medicine, killing art & music and especially destroying integrity in those mediums and much more thefts. Dont you care about the million artists on your platform. Pick ANY one and credit them! Get AI out of Twitch!! There is a million more artists deserving of PAY for their work and credit! How disgusting, disconnected & gross are the people signing off on such a thing.🤮
  • slashstand92 commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI generated emotes are both unacceptable and insulting to real human artists. Its really not that hard to just go to Photoshop, find a picture of a cat, and add a santa hat on said cat's head.

    But I guess Twitch's execs are too lazy to do that, huh?
  • alexartsme commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is theft from artists and looks soul-less. This is a platform of creators and shouldn't support theft.

  • sora_1326 commented  ·   ·  Report

    There's been endless discussions all over the internet regarding generative AI and companies still push through to get genAI things in their websites? Really? Setting aside the bad PR, the terrible environmental impact, and how this is free publicity (which I doubt Twitch needs), how does this benefit anyone? We went from lovely emotes for every other important place to...this. Why?
  • knifebun commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is so embarrassing for you, remember when you paid artists and had good emotes (ex: pride, Overwatch League, etc). You know you can still do that, right?
  • sjokoladesuppe commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is dogshit, you don't need to to do it and shouldn't, just take a pic of a cat ffs
  • ElfiFae commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using generative AI, especially with such a slapdash showing, shows they don't actually have an artistic mind among them. Don't just pay artists, HIRE artists!
  • iceran42 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Artists have been a big part of emotes on twitch from the start, this is a slap in the face of that legacy. Not only that but it also looks awful, please just pay your artists and have actual quality emotes for your users….
  • DSPStanky commented  ·   ·  Report

    Your wallet so thin you can't even throw a few hundred bucks at an artist for a single emote? **** some artists would do it for less than a hundred as long as you credited them. Insane that entire teams of people signed off on this and didn't expect backlash.
  • LemmynadeVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    it's a single emote that you could've easily paid an artist to create. or at least just bought some stock image to photoshop or whatever.

  • V0IDHED commented  ·   ·  Report

    Absolutely not. Using generative AI just shows how lazy you are. Pay your ******** artists.
  • Turntech_Doghead commented  ·   ·  Report

    Get this AI **** out of here. Twitch could've easily snagged a royalty free photo of a cat off the internet, slapped a hat on it and called it a day. But no, they resort to generative AI. Disgusting.
  • Domiwoof commented  ·   ·  Report

    No. Just flat out ******* no. I don’t even have the energy to explain why this is so gross and I’m way too exhausted to write a long, thoughtful post that will just get ignored anyway.

    Just do not ******* do this, what is wrong with you actually.
  • TheVirusVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch adding this emote shows they don't care about the artists that utilize their platform period. In addition, it's laziness. Pure and utter laziness on their part just to add a new holiday emote. How hare would it have been to get a REAL image of a cat, and photoshop a little Santa had onto it? My guess? Too easily, but not lazy enough for the Twitch execs.
  • CorbeauWrite commented  ·   ·  Report

    They are absolutly ******* stupid to use AI, I guess they do not love money, let's contact sponsors and make it clear this "plateform" is on its last ******* legs
    I hope the person that decided this choice would be fired.
  • ZippyVtuber commented  ·   ·  Report

    No AI emotes on my watch. Please remove it, or at least remake it but by hiring an artist, or SOMETHING better than this. Thank you.
  • MrNailVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch having over a dozen viable affordable, cheap options or even practically free options, couldn't be bothered to consider how much of a slap in the face this would be.
  • exclamatia commented  ·   ·  Report

    was ur design team actually this lazy? nobody wanted to volunteer a picture of their cat meowing and photoshopping a santa hat on it? AI generated images have no place in the twitch community. Honestly, I personally will delete the messages of my chatters who use this emote.
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