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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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  • Katcorot commented  ·   ·  Report

    Imagine a company snubbing all the artists on its website? Couldn't be twitch but it was....
  • 8BallWizard commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI using unlicensed art = Bad

    I thought we knew this already
  • The_Worsti commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are lot of actual artists on twitch who could've done this without using AI.
    Programs that literally steal from actual artists.
    Or you could've just put a small santa hat on a kitten and taken a photo of it and that would've been better than this cat emote.
  • Senterel commented  ·   ·  Report

    How does it feel to break your own TOS, hmmm?
  • SP_oo_K commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a artist badge user on this plattform this feels like a gut punch from you guys with this emote.

    Why use AI to create emotes instead of having any of your already talented users to create an global emote for you!

  • Deagroth commented  ·   ·  Report

    The OP lays out pretty much all of the arguments I have on this topic. And as the legal landscape around this new form of copyright infringement catches up to the reality of it, Twitch is positioning itself for potential problems.
  • barghest_shadows commented  ·   ·  Report

    Really! How could you be this disrespectable the creatives of the platform. Just gross behaviour, well done... Oh and gratz on breaking your own TOS, so cool of you.
  • sweet_fpv commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI has been getting insane pushback from aritsts and creatives across multiple platforms. It is especially insulting on a platform of creatives to use AI instead of actual artists. AI artwork is also created with artwork that is not licensed, which directly violates Twitch's own TOS of not using unlicensed assets.
  • MinaTheMaid commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are Thousands and Thousands of Artists use this platform and you decided to use AI for a emote... There is ZERO reason and/or excuse to use AI when you have so many people available that willingly do it for FREE... plus who knows what kind of art was stolen by the training data used to create that
  • Fae_viking_princess commented  ·   ·  Report

    As an artist, I am disappointed in Twitch for using a generative AI to make a global emote—shame on the platform.
  • Himmune commented  ·   ·  Report

    twitch has been for the creators. there could have been a big promotion on the platform to make the xmas emotes, but twitch cheap out with ai? ****
  • lionheat9 commented  ·   ·  Report

    using generative ai on an platform full of creatives is just simply stupid
  • IamDrPurple commented  ·   ·  Report

    The new UI is ugly and doesn't help improve my experience watching the streams. Plz change it back xoxo
  • TheRealViviWaltz commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative AI should not be used in ANY case unless receipts can be shown that artists who's work was used to train the AI was paid for their work.
  • TheGreatGoddessFreya commented  ·   ·  Report

    The melty cat is an awful kick in the face to every artist on this platform. STOP IT.

  • mutinycode commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why use AI when you have an entire platform of artists that would jump at the opportunity.
    It's an upsetting move by twitch

  • KasumiKills commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative ai is wrong, would you like it if someone stole your stuff and your work and claim it as their own? no you wouldn't stop using generative ai
  • ZIGAG1999 commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI Bad!

    Bad Twitch Bad Twitch!

    Seriously, don't use ai for anything this was the dumbest thing anyone could do.
  • ethrad commented  ·   ·  Report

    You created the artist badge for a reason, please don't undermine it further.
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