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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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  • cal_t_ commented  ·   ·  Report

    Disgusting Twitch should be ashamed

  • BlankTheMage commented  ·   ·  Report

    for a platform that thrives on user created content, having an ai image is a slap in the face to everyone that uses twitch
  • jammybuku commented  ·   ·  Report

    Pathetic. All that money, full access to thousands of artists and Amazon would rather use AI. Pay your artists!
  • Crasher415 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just get an artist to do the emotes. Using AI to generate them is bland.
  • BouserTheBun commented  ·   ·  Report

    You would think a corporation that makes Three Billion a year can afford to hire an artist for one emote...

  • KyrooTales commented  ·   ·  Report

    So many incredibly talented artists that utilize your platform and you choose to use AI slop instead for an emote :( very disappointing.
  • VyxieVenomous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ai generated images are incredibly lazy and bland. Just get an artist to make an emote.

  • taerufluff commented  ·   ·  Report

    You literally can pay an actual human being to make that emote for you. Instead you chose the option that is not only an INSULT to artists but is also bad for teh environment. I agree with a comment below saying how this comes off as super hypocritical of you! Building up the praise of "how proud you are" of the streamers on your platform, just to slap them all in the face and not even ask one of them to make the emote and using ai garbage that nobody wants instead. :/
  • cyndrigaming commented  ·   ·  Report

    AI is disgusting. Unsubbed from all my current twitch subs and will support them elsewhere. Not using this site until AI is removed.
  • JustHere4Coffee commented  ·   ·  Report

    Seriously guys? GenAI for emotes when you have *so many* excellent artists on the platform? Is Jeffyboy that hard up?
  • OutbackCatgirl commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's the ugliest emote I've ever seen and an insult to cat lovers everywhere as well as artists. Get this horrifying abomination off twitch.

  • KastorCaster commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why don't you just use real artists Twitch? It's not hard.
  • Sparrowlicious commented  ·   ·  Report

    There are a good chunk of artists on Twitch, some of them even partners. Why not contract one of your partners for a good emote? Why not take a picture of a staff member's cat? Every single one of these options is better than AI, which btw Twitch has no copyright to because you can't copyright AI since it runs on "trained data" which in real words means "stuff it scrapes off the internet without asking for consent". ****, I'd even gift Twitch a photo of one of my own cats if they didn't both have white faces (even my calico is mostly white).

  • Wolf_Anubite commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is disgusting, a company that makes millions can easily pay a artist for ONE EMOTE! Using AI is just lazy, disgusting and utter bs.

  • CapriciousCollector commented  ·   ·  Report

    The use of ai for emotes is extremely hypocritical, you hold campaigns saying how proud you are of the creators on your platform and the talent they have, and then not support them to make emotes for the site. Ridiculous behaviour.
  • Goofus_T_Faust commented  ·   ·  Report

    To preface this, I am by no means a lawyer. The only experience I have is that I'm just coming out of a single semester of an "Art and Entertainment Law" college class. But going off what I have been taught:

    AI-Generated art, whether created with a model trained 100% on "ethically" procured images or otherwise, has dubious chances of ever being copyrightable in the United States.

    See Thaler v. Perlmutter, page 8: "Copyright has never stretched so far, however, as to protect works generated by new forms of technology operating absent any guiding human hand, as plaintiff urges here. Human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright."

    One could argue that inputting "prompts" could be equal to a "guiding human hand." I, as well as nearly any artist, would disagree wholeheartedly.

    Also see Naruto v. Slater, the case in which it was stated that a monkey, who had gotten control of a camera and taken a picture of itself, was entitled to the copyright of said picture. Within this case, the judge, referencing a number of other laws, statutes, regulations, etc. asserted that humanity is a key component of authorship under the Copyright Act of 1976.

    In addition, just last year, the Copyright Review Board refused to grant Jason M. Allen a copyright registration for a piece of AI-generated artwork that he had submitted for reconsideration twice.

    The full texts for both of these cases, as well as this ruling from the Copyright Office, can be found online fairly easily.

    My reasoning to detest the presence of AI-Generated content on Twitch goes far beyond legal precedent. I think it spits in the face of a large part of the Twitch community. Without artists, Twitch would arguably be nothing. I feel like using AI to create emotes, instead of commissioning one of the countless extremely talented artists, would be a very good way to tell said artists that Twitch has no care for them. At that point, what is stopping them from going somewhere else?

    Support artists. Remove the AI-Generated emote.

    (If somebody out there reading this does have proper legal experience, please feel free to correct me.)
  • ArbsZee commented  ·   ·  Report

    There's plenty of creatives on your platform to go ask for art twitch like cmon
  • Aeon4945 commented  ·   ·  Report

    Do better. Hire some ACTUAL artists.
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