it is a very ugly emote when you enlarge it. this is not the quality i expect from twitch and you are offending the entire artist category, see if i'm wrong

i agree with everyone with these needing to be removed , because if it was a streamer itd be removed ... its only fair if twitch has these removed too !

DON'T USE AI

Friggin greedy *** corporations, sticking it to the very people that bring in their money... There's hundreds of thousands of perfectly capable artists that are using their platform every single day that sell their services for pennies on the dollar and they choose to do what? Bro, if it wasn't for people that I hold dear and me trying to support their efforts, I'd have sworn off the platform ages ago. This one is just another nail in the coffin towards taht end. And imagine how hard that coffin will drop when every square inch of it is covered in nails.

Another company being lazy and using AI garbage.

Imagine having an entire platform full of creatives, and then slapping all of us in the face with AI generated content. Real classy move Twitch, GG go next

GG on breaking your own TOS by using AI for emotes, Twitch. Also you have SO many amazing artists on your platform, literally spoiled for choice, and you still chose AI?? Good lawd get it together or sell the company to someone who can actually run it well.

Upon review of ai art twitch has broken their own community guideline of Intellectual Property Rights (seen here https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Community-Guidelines?language=ja)

Generative AI is stolen material

i agree with everyone with these needing to be removed , because if it was a streamer itd be removed ... its only fair if twitch has these removed too !

Twitch has done a lot for me personally and professionally. As an artist, I feel like I have a valuable platform to not only show my work, but find and sometimes even work with other amazing people.

A part of these valuable experiences has happened because of artists' creativity and originality. From my experience, artists are not only capable of being professional subject matter experts in making meaningful, tasteful, quality works, but can also know a variety of other subjects (psychology in my case!).

It's because of that and all of the ethical and practical reasons cited by others that I feel crushed about the prospect of Twitch endorsing what amounts to mass copyright infringement. Simply because a system has stolen from too many creators to count doesn't mean that it has no longer stolen from anybody.

Overall, artists' work is valuable, and artists themselves are worth protecting. I would like to join the call on Twitch to recall & replace this and any other emotes that were made with unsourced/stolen material.

You have so many artists or photo editors that would JUMP at the opportunity to do a global emote for Twitch yet you chose to go the lazy sloppy way of using AI.
You could have had a contest to do a global emote, paid an artist or had a Twitch staff member edit a photo of their cat with a Santa hat.

You have so many artists on your platform and you use AI? I'd say I'm surprised but I'm not. But I did hope for better from twitch.

twitch?? ai is not cool why would u do that ?????

All those streamers out there paying artists for their finely crafted emotes and the company worth BILLIONS is pumping out AI slop.

It's like getting an empty box for Christmas. Wow Twitch. Way to let everyone know what little you think of them.

AI should be used for the AI of your virtual teammates in single-player games.

NOT for artwork, videos and emotes stolen from artists. Is it too much to ask?

I am 100% banning this phrase from my chat. This emote will not be used on my channel. I do not support the use of generative AI never going to. If you've paid for every step of the way sure, fine, but this was a single image. You're a platform for creatives and you just slapped every single one of us in the face. Most of us could have produced higher quality images, most of those would probably have done it for free. There is zero excuse for you to lead a site of creatives and then "celebrate" in such a TONE DEAF way by using something that directly threatens many of their livelihoods. You have made a lot of awful decisions lately, whoever it was you just hired into middle management needs to spend some time at a creator summit, so they can have some idea what we as the content creators of this platform want.

Commenting on the "artists are just jealous" post - you see, most people while upset about ai in general are actually mostly upset that people generate it to trace for commissions or generate it for some kind of profit in general. Stealing people's money with lies on top of the art is what people have a problem with.

And if you really truly thought this wasn't wrong, then why do all these accounts that get called out for ai feel they need to delete their account and "rebrand" to keep selling? If there's "nothing wrong", why are ya'll running like cowards? Someone who isn't guilty doesn't do that. Just sayin.

Why is everyone assuming it's AI? Because of a whisker? As an artist, I've left stray lines like that all the time...The connection to the nose/mouth is more strange, but....that could still be bad photoshop, too.

Because the texture and hair in the hat? The texture in the mouth? The fur all going the right way? The lack of strange pixelization when you zoom in? I don't know for sure that it IS AI and isn't just a photoshopped image. Or a combination of the two? We don't know, is the problem.

And for everyone who will say "they can just show a WIP" - not all artists take WIP shots or save them. That doesn't appease some communities. After all this, if there is an artist, they may be too embarrassed to take credit, or they were fire for bad PR if they existed in the first place.

I think we're getting so gung ho on AI witchhunts that we're quicker to assuming something is than isn't. While I agree with the message and the thought that yes, Twitch could use a staff cat (and market it as such) or use community artists - but I think we need to be careful in accusations too.

So many artists on the platform, and you can't find one you want to help out by commissioning an emote from? You're not even trying...

I’ll be auto timing out anyone that use this emote. A platform filled with artists and they went with a AI is a disgusting act

What's worse, is that cat abomination is doing the ahaego face.
You could have done a photograph of one of the cats of twitch staff to make it more wholesome and relatable.