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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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  • MikeyMet commented  ·   ·  Report

    Pay artists their due, you greed-addled ghouls.
  • mltprpz_ commented  ·   ·  Report

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  • crw_scribbler commented  ·   ·  Report

    1) it looks awful, like the cat is being abused
    2) AI is shattering insulting. One of the richest parent companies in the world, and yall can't pay artists? Shameful.
  • sneezingowl commented  ·   ·  Report

    come on twitch it's not too late to be better
  • LillyWandsworth commented  ·   ·  Report

    I could have just photoshopped a hat on a cat without having to burn down a rainforest

  • Umbra_Zeal commented  ·   ·  Report

    With the massive drop Twitter had with Bluesky if Twitch keeps doing stuff like this, I can see another Twitch alt popping up and just doing better.
  • thedulcineaeffect commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ethical issues aside it looks more horrifying and disgusting than cute 🤮🤮🤮
  • mango_puppy commented  ·   ·  Report

    There is tons of artists who are willing to make emotes for you, don't use AI for a community that have THOUSANDS OF ARTISTS. You could easily hire someone to draw it or ask someone to take a picture of their cat, take this emote down please
  • DorranV commented  ·   ·  Report

    I refuse to believe none of the Twitch staff could find the time to put a santa hat on their own cat....
  • Loupilaa commented  ·   ·  Report

    You've a massive, MASSIVE art community on Twitch, there are for sure people who would absolutely LOVE to make an emote for you. People who'd even take pics of their cats for you to use them as emotes. Do you really prefer to use this abomination because, what, you don't need to renew any licenses for it? Shameful. And the emote is hideous.

  • SylvieTG commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's amazing to me - absolutely amazing - that Twitch thought that this was a good idea.
    Here is what you do.
    In October or November, you announce a contest - "we're going to add a global emote for Christmas! To be considered, you must have a stream in the Art category where you create the Emoji and then submit a clip of the final Emoji here (link to a site). Each creator can enter any number of times, spam us. We'll be taking the best as determined by our staff, and making them global emotes!
    We'll let users vote for which they like the best, and you can use your stream and social presences to help us!
    Additionally, we'll have a special Bit tip jar for this endeavor, and 1/2 will go to the top voted artist - and the other 1/2 will be split between the 2nd and 3rd place. We'll get ProArt or Clip Studio or someone who isn't Adobe to sponsor as well, to bump the starting pool for that - maybe we'll even pull in Wacom, Microsoft or Apple and get some pen devices in that pool.
    Or...
    You can do a lame *** AI thing, tick off your community, knowing that they really don't have any other good options for streaming because of how that market is set up, and laugh at the people telling you to cut it out.

  • TyrannoSTARusRex commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI generated text and images should never have a space in the creative sphere. NEVER
  • coffeestarsbooks commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch is home to so many talented content creators and artists. So this feels like a bit of a stab in the back and an insult to use AI-generated emotes. Please do better, Twitch.
  • Viniciusltda commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please, for ONCE show that you care about your users and creators AND PAY AN ACTUAL ARTIST TO MAKE THE EMOTES!!!
  • LavaSlug commented  ·   ·  Report

    no one asked for or likes plagiarism machine slop. shame on you
  • asogaut commented  ·   ·  Report

    Don't go down this rabbit hole Twitch. No one wants this.
  • eaveline commented  ·   ·  Report

    It would've taken 5 minutes to just edit a hat on a cat. Stop using AI.
  • vvooper_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    this emote is an insult to every single artist on twitch
  • IRISAHIvt commented  ·   ·  Report

    Pay artists instead of asking the plagiarism machine to make you a **** piece of art. Do better.
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