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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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  • TheSilliestJae commented  ·   ·  Report

    dont we just love companies that just say ******** to their many sources of revenue?
  • JuwuVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    Generative ai is not only art theft but cannot be copyrighted or legally protected, which makes this emote a risk in all ways. There are many artists who you can employ to draw or photobash a similar emote and avoid issues

  • elsen0va commented  ·   ·  Report

    How hard is it to take a picture of a cat and photoshop it
  • Xaphora commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI art is quite frankly a slap in the face to real artists. Most AI is trained off of real art work and takes away the possibility of a real human showcasing their hard work. Disappointing to see.

  • FataltheBaptist commented  ·   ·  Report

    Get real twitch and actually support artists. Stop this gen AI garbage
  • the_d3d commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yeah, this just seems very tone-deaf to the very things the creative communities on Twitch have been saying since day one. Shame on you Twitch
  • RobbinRidunk commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a site that platforms thousands of talented artists struggling in the battle against generative AI, this feels like a slap to every single one of their faces. There is no room for generative AI on this platform when it comes to art. And that INCLUDES silly cats.

  • WereMaxEl commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is disgusting. Twitch is giving artists a platforn to show themselves and doing this ****? Might consider leaving Twitch affiliate if this happens again.
  • DulciaVulpa commented  ·   ·  Report

    remove the ai garbage and support real artists
  • SylveonTheInktoling commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm saying NO to AI "art" (slop). This kind of garbage has NO place in this or any streaming website as this just shows Twitch has literally ZERO interest in their artists, instead choosing to add AI slop as a global Emote. Utterly and entirely messed up, they have their own artists or even others they could commission to make a new Christmas Emote from, but they decided to add that SLOP!
  • FraggleRock2 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Common twitch L

    Remove all AI nonsense from the site.
  • CaptainSfer commented  ·   ·  Report

    There is no place for AI generated pictures on a platform that houses many artists. We don't want them.

  • ScyphoVT commented  ·   ·  Report

    Not only is this an insult to all artists on the platform, it is also an insult to their OWN artists that have made global emotes for them. It also makes them look cheap as ****. Disgusting.
  • clyde254 commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is just insulting. How hard could it be to pay somebody to glue a hat to a cat?
  • madwombatman commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ai has no place in art, nor should it have a place on this site. Keep this up and you will quickly find a competitor taking a bunch of your clients, twitch.
  • Caelum_VT commented  ·   ·  Report

    NO AI ART! This feels like an insult to all of the hard working artists who use your platform, please have more respect for your creators :(.

  • azmiverse commented  ·   ·  Report

    this is unacceptable! pay artists for original work or "create" an emote the community will never use!
  • erixsummerdown commented  ·   ·  Report

    There is no use case for generative AI images and there will not be one. If you want whatever image could possibly be imagined, hire artists. That's the point. Take off the disgusting GenAI cat emoji. And next time you're making a new emoji you'll ACTUALLY get the community on board instead.
  • PoggieB commented  ·   ·  Report

    Twitch has access to what, hundreds of thousands of emotes? from thousands of creators?? and they chose generated garbage instead of paying a single artist for a global emote. Imagine.
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