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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LuisKingKing
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Please respect the artists who have made Twitch their home.
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nyaesa
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You missed out on a massive opportunity here! You have created the artist twitch club, this could have been a great opportunity to say "hey guys we need a new christmas emotes so we're holding a competition for the best emote, winner will receive either bits, subs or time on the front page" or if there was already an emote you liked from artist clubc you could have asked them and be like "hey we like your emote, can we use it for a global emote, we will credit you" and I'm fairly certain they would have said yes! This is highly disappointing from you twitch when this could have opened doors to many opportunities.
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kittiebittiebit
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Hire an artist! I don't want to look at art made by computers/AI I want to look at art made by people!
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xLoadez
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Stop using AI for art. It's not art.
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straifulove
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Instead of using AI you should do a contest for your art/artists/drawings category streamers to make you a Christmas emote, then people will hate you a little bit less :)
#StopAI
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dunivanj
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This emote just looks wrong, it's unsettling.
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Chawawaa
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Could’ve made a silly looking photoshop edit instead of this sh**
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CBcartoonslive
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You could have hired a real artist for less money. Also the emote looks like ****.
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A_Casual_Badger
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I may not be an artist, but I follow about 5 different art channels on Twitch. They are SO TALENTED! Why the **** would you not hire someone already using your platform for art to make you an emote? What would it cost to hire a real artist for 1 emote... 50 to 100 bucks? A drop in the bucket for a company like Twitch. No AI in my emotes please!
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Jabo
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Hey Twitch, can you actually CARE about your community? :)
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RelthMcroth
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I wish to communicate the issue I have with the idea of using generative AI for global emotes and promotional material. Not only is it disrespectful to artists that use your platform but it also requires a substantial amount of energy to run which can have a negative impact on the environment.
I humbly ask that Twitch reconsider using AI for generating material.
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randominternetsurfer
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AI is cringe.
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terrahardcore
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why not hire a photographer to snap a cute pic ether?
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salamis_dragoon
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Look, we really shouldn't be giving this a leg to stand on. We let AI art in, they'll just keep using AI art anywhere they can get away with it.
AI art really isn't ethical currently. We need to put our foot down. -
pg__animation
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There are so many artists they could have commissioned to make this, or even just buying a photo license could have worked here. This is grossly unneccesary and a huge slap in the face to artists in general. Sends completely the wrong message
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karasiqe
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Not a problem with this one. AI can be used by designers without issues, and its actually a more ethical way to create photoreal art considering you dont use real animal. Twitch has much bigger PR issues like platforming terrorist propaganda and allowing radical political agenda.
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L4nc3murdock
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Using AI generated images shows a lack of awareness and consideration of artists who put a lot of care and time into their work and lively hood. This is not right step to improve Twitch and is a in very poor taste. Any use of AI can and will show how little you care about those who use your platform and you can starts to show disconnection from them. Take a step back and carefully rethink about this decision.
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SimonTheDigger
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It would have taken an intern less time to photoshop a stock photo of a Santa hat onto a stock photo of a cat's head than to wait for some garbage generative AI thing to create this horrible melting mess. Just pay an artist, seriously. NO GENERATIVE AI IN EMOTES.
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Rhiowmeow
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You could've paid -less- to an artist to get a cute emote than the impact this is going on have on the trust to your artist community.
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PoopyTheSkunk
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There is no excuse for an Ai emote. Hire a real artist.