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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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  • Ahdok commented  ·   ·  Report

    Every time something like this happens, I move one of my twitch subs to patreon, to show the creator that at least I appreciate them.

    Just hire a real artist to replace it, shouldn't cost you more than $100. I'd do it for that and make it actually funny as well.
  • ChaudSpielerVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch you need to do better!!! Your site is going to crash and burn because of the staff and CEO's incompetence and it's only gonna get worse! This is lazy and pathetic!
  • sunkenShell commented  ·   ·  Report

    Use of genAI for emotes is such a short-sighted and tone-deaf move, it makes me wonder if investors came up with this despite pushback from artists and others in other instances of genAI use.

    Short-term monetary savings using ethically dubious means tend not to have a happy ending in the long run. I implore you to reconsider use of genAI in any shape or form.
  • SinkSankSock commented  ·   ·  Report

    Artists: please don't use AI Because it literally hurts us as creators, businesses, etc

    Non-artists: it's fine! Artists are just being sensitive

    Maybe actually listen to the people being affected by the thing. Artists saying something is harmful means it's harmful. Sure it was easy, but it's an agreement that artists and their opinions don't matter.

  • TomoAries commented  ·   ·  Report

    Dan Clancy don't be a spineless punk challenge (impossible)
  • MxMaryMoon commented  ·   ·  Report

    You literally have an ENTIRE category called Art, including a newly-formed Twitch Creator Club for artists, makers, and crafters. But, you chose this instead.

  • LurienZE commented  ·   ·  Report

    disgusting... just pay an artist instead of embarrassing yourselves
  • alvoVision commented  ·   ·  Report

    Runs a platform full of creatives and artists, basically tells them all "FU, you're worthless".

  • peek_yew commented  ·   ·  Report

    It astonishes me that they bothered to use AI when there are so many artists on their platform.
  • kalyflower commented  ·   ·  Report

    What a slap to the faces for all of us artists who's livelihoods are in shambles thanks to AI generated 'art.'

    So many amazing and incredible artists use this platform daily, and for you to not only approve but also release??? an emote made by AI is ridiculous and extremely shallow. It goes to show just how much you care about your consumers.

    No one wants this. It's ugly anyways. Go commission a real artists and give us an emote we actually deserve.
  • Juanshonium_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please don't add Ai garbage, we are sick of it! Ai is ruining the planet and ruining art

  • Karadach commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is so incredibly insulting to the many artists that stream on Twitch. It's a simple cat wearing a Santa hat emote. It would have been so easy to commission an actual artist to draw that.
  • VyoletteVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's really embarrassing that you guys make the wrong decision over and over again and consistently have to "reevaluate". The people at your table are insanely out of touch with the community and it's killing your credibility. Do better. Have better community representation.

  • redria64 commented  ·   ·  Report

    please change this emote. There are so many actual artists on Twitch hurting from the use of GenAI. nobody wants this.
  • bambi_artiste commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's such an insult to users to provide sloppy AI instead of real art.

    Artists having their hard work scraped to train AIs deserve work.

    Users deserve products made with intent and care.

    We all deserve better, so do better.
  • SureyD commented  ·   ·  Report

    Whoever had the idea and whoever approved it: you're really showing how cheap of a brand Amazon is. I know there are people in your marketing team who can do the minimum effort of buying photos of a cat and a hat, and slap it together in Photoshop in minutes - heck, I know some people who could do it in MS Powerpoint. If you really wanted something custom, bragging about the artist you hired for a shiny job actually works, shows you have money, shows you care about quality. But you chose to make an emote that looks like **** and damaged your brand.
  • poltpurrgeist commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch has a unique advantage as a platform for the customization it provides to streamers anywhere. Features that are brought to life most often by the artists you find on and off the platform—overlays, alerts, panels, sub-badges, emotes, etc.—are all things that've supported many through commission for years at this point, and many of these are assets that are uniquely needed by Twitch streamers alone. There are so many artists in our community that could have turned to the emote CatintheChat and it is, frankly, disturbing that AI had to be used to create an emote for a company that makes the kind of capital that I know Twitch has.

    It's not only lazy; it's impersonal to a majority of streamers who've used artists in any form in the past for the content they've made on the platform, and I do not think that this is an emote that's reflective of the community you wish to raise. People have every reason to leave the platform and turn to Twitch's competitors if they're unable to support the artists that's made the platform so, so unique.

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