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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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  • Bazzadora commented  ·   ·  Report

    Don't use Ai there are so many other options!
  • piscesmoonpie commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch is full of artists. Using AI create a global emote is ridiculous and whoever approved this should be ashamed.
  • DutchWVS commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's a real shame that Twitch went for AI art instead of one of the many talented artists (streamers). They even got an artist section and they went for this :(
  • TamTroll commented  ·   ·  Report

    People support this platform. people are your creators, your content, your product.

    So why the **** would you try to push something that hurts all of them?
  • NemisXue commented  ·   ·  Report

    Seriously its like Twitch doesn't pay attention to what is happening in its own streamers communities. Literally the number of people against AI in the Twitch space is higher then the people for it. This is 100% another idea from the top thats been made against the community instead of for the community. I hope they see all this and actually remove it and any other ideas for AI.
  • Lyssa_Little_Bear commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is so lazy and for such a terrible result. Pay an artist and get a good product.
  • recursiveclouds commented  ·   ·  Report

    What a disgrace, you've got so many artists on the platform but you were too lazy to get any of them to make this emote for you

    Stop trying to cram generative AI down our throats. It will never work
  • DuneEryksson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch made $3B last year, I think you guys can afford to pay a human.
  • kosmicnova_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are literally so many real pictures of cats in christmas hats, or a twitch staff member could use their own cat and immortalise them in an emote! Why use AI? It's lazy and unethical.
  • LexSaetos commented  ·   ·  Report

    Even as someone who doesn't live off creating art and emotes the usage of generative AI just feels insulting to my peers and the content creators hosted on Twitch.
    Even non-affiliates manage to pay artists for emotes in preparation for unlocking slots to use them in, I'd expect as much from the company running the platform they're on.

    Do better.
  • kjaysaint1 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Supporting those who make content with their own hard work should be the priority. Not to those that typed code in and generated an image. Its a real slap in the face for those who spent countless hours,days, weeks trying to get their art made to have it overshadowed.

  • FloridianAidan commented  ·   ·  Report

    As someone who follows/keeps up with a fair number of art creators on Twitch, the use of genAI is absolutely disgusting. Every single person involved in this process at the company should be ashamed of themselves.
  • VeilTravelers commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have an entire community of artists on your platform at your disposal and you decided to generate a half baked cat instead? C'mon, use your heads.
  • catnshades commented  ·   ·  Report

    You have an entire community or artists that make both emotes and also commissioned art pieces even some that are not commissioned. To be so out of touch with your community and to use a AI generated emote image when you have so many sources to use is unreal. Who decided that was a good idea and needs to step down?
  • Aapur commented  ·   ·  Report

    Using AI Generation in emotes is an insult to every artist using your service as a streaming servics. You have thousands of artitst you could have commissioned instead for a tailor-made emoji.
    Do not allow this slop on here
  • RaigothZ commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are emote artists out there that charge reasonable prices, especially for a multi million/billion dollar company like twitch with backing from Amazon. There is absolutely NO excuse to use AI art for ANY sort of advertising or artistic creation.
  • MysticVT235 commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is very insulting to artist who HAVE WORKED VERY ******* their work and have this slapped right in their faces. Hire real artists!!!
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