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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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  • Taeltales commented  ·   ·  Report

    You could just pay an artist to make this, not count on the art theft machine that is Ai generation
  • KissaKanivelho commented  ·   ·  Report

    There is no reason to disrespect the very creators who stream on your platform by using AI-generated art for an emote. AI-generated art steals from actual artists. Pay to commission an artist for emotes!

  • SlayerLightStorm commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch. Remove this. NOW. This is an abomination, and an insult to creators of all kinds. I WILL NOT support ANY kind of generative AI being used in this fashion. You are out of touch with your community, you don't value your content creators. This is a complete slap in the face of all of us. By continuing to support this, you will be forcing a huge number of content creators off your platform. Do you want that to happen? Because that will happen if you continue to support this abomination of a computational resource.
  • MitchTheRaccoon commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's pretty obvious this slop icon will be used as an icon of harassment against real artists. The meaning inherent in this icon isn't "happy cat", it's "I don't respect artists." Adding this icon shows that Twitch agrees.
  • MandoShoujo commented  ·   ·  Report

    There's no need for AI generated emotes when there are thousands of talented artists out there.
  • liricalshadow commented  ·   ·  Report

    Instead of doing stuff that improves the service, you do stuff nobody wants like this
  • thedashingsaint commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI Slop being passed around as art is like serving your guests your own ****, ' The Help' style.

  • Fironna_The_Dark_Elf commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ai is just wasting valuable resources for immense lack of effort and stolen resources
  • omnistruck commented  ·   ·  Report

    Thousands of artists on the platform and your choice is AI? Really?
  • DeeBeeAyy commented  ·   ·  Report

    Seriously, using AI for your emotes appears lazy and sloppy. Couldn’t even be half-assed to buy a cat image that already exists?
  • Oceonax commented  ·   ·  Report

    On a platform built for creators, it's a huge insult to those creatives for Twitch to make an official AI-generated emote. There is nothing to benefit by endorsing AI image generation, it only shows a complete disregard for the artists whose work was stolen to build AI databases.

  • AllonBachuth commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI art makes it clear you're out of touch with your community and don't value your creators. It is the telltale sign of an untrustworthy brand. That catinthechat emote is hideous and sickening.
  • MattoCat commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hello, I am an orange cat who isn't AI generated.

    There are so many options that didn't involve AI.

    There's a whole fandom of people, whole libraries of cat images with purchaseable use-rights, or just take your own photo of a cat with a hat on meowing.
  • lokiomikuji commented  ·   ·  Report

    Should have commissioned an artist for an emote instead of ai. Its an issue when it’s ai and not actual art from real artists

  • Supersunnydere commented  ·   ·  Report

    Between this and just rolling back the artistic nudity rule you put in place for artists because of a bad actor, you are really putting artists through the ringer this year. I do not like ai art. I do not support ai art.

  • TheClicky commented  ·   ·  Report

    Disgusting behaviour twitch, remove this slop and pay one of the many artists or creatives on your platform to make you something that looks better, and has some morals.
    It's really not that expensive.
    Do better.
  • AirBlade commented  ·   ·  Report

    the sign of corporate ignorance on a platform that claims to support artists
    who would have thunked?

    :failfish:
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